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Chapter 170 Martial arts is the only way to promotion

The key is to make it fast and cheap!Artisans in the army can make them by themselves according to the drawings. They have similar characteristics to pine cannons and elm sprays, and can equip troops in a short time.

Moreover, the combination of the grenadier and the thunderbolt, coupled with the advantage in numbers, exerted a lot of power.

It's probably not that sharp to kill directly, with arms and legs flying around, but it's not difficult to get injured.

One can imagine the scene where the black and thunderous thunder smashed down the sky and exploded on the ground, shooting out countless broken pottery fragments and iron sand.

Xiong Tingbi led the crowd to make inspections while commenting and giving pointers.Imagine how the enemy will attack and how your own side will defend, perfecting various tactics.

After the inspection, when Xiong Tingbi and others returned to the city, they met a general who had been waiting for him for a long time at the city gate.

"Master Jinglue." Huang Degong bowed respectfully.

Xiong Tingbi nodded slightly, and asked, "Are you ready to go to the capital to study martial arts?"

Huang Degong made a bitter face, and said: "The general thinks there is nothing to learn in fighting in battle, and I want to ask my lord..."

"Nonsense." Xiong Tingbi rolled his eyes and reprimanded: "It's Long Live's grace to uplift a warrior. You pack up quickly and rush to the capital tomorrow."

After finishing speaking, Xiong Tingbi pulled out his horse's head and went straight into the city, leaving Huang Degong there to dry.

He Kegang couldn't bear to see Huang Degong standing there stupidly, got off his horse, walked to Huang Degong's side, and said, "Huang Chuangzi, it's a good thing to go to martial arts. Others can't go if they want to!"

Seeing Huang Degong raised his head to look at him, He Kegang reached out and patted his arm, and said, "Long live is very important to martial arts. In the future, if a general wants to be promoted, he must have a background in martial arts, or have advanced in martial arts."

"Is it possible?" Huang Degong blinked his eyes and said, "I am brave in battle and have made great achievements in killing the enemy. Shouldn't I be rewarded and promoted?"

"Look, you still don't understand." He Kegang said with a smile: "If you have made great achievements in the battle, or if you are recommended by the Master of Economics, or Long Live Jianba, you will always go into martial arts."

Huang Degong scratched his head and thought for a while, he seemed a little enlightened, and asked: "If you don't enter martial arts, is Long Live worried and won't trust and reuse?"

He Kegang grinned, not daring to draw conclusions.He smiled helplessly.He patted Huang Degong again, turned around and rode away.

"It seems that I guessed it right." Huang Degong rolled his big eyes and shrugged his shoulders helplessly, "I have to go sooner or later, so there is no need to procrastinate, just start tomorrow."

In fact, many people, including Xiong Tingbi and He Kegang, can clearly see the purpose of Zhu Youxiao's continuous replacement of generals through martial arts training.

This is the emperor's grasping military power and controlling Ming's army.

Through martial arts, conduct inspections, training, and selection, and at the same time replace or install capable generals you trust, and gradually take over military power in various places.

If they performed well and got the emperor's approval, they would naturally be able to lead the army and become an official, and even Jian Ba ​​was promoted; if they were unbearable, then martial arts would be the end of some people's military career.

First in Gyeonggi, then in the northern border towns, and will expand to the inland and south in the future.This step-by-step procedure is neither hidden nor difficult to guess.

To put it bluntly, if you don't pass the level of martial arts, if you want to gain the trust and reuse of the emperor in the future, if you want to regain military power and get promoted, it is basically hopeless.

But the emperor's mind is easy to guess, who dares to say it outright, who dares to resist?

………………

Phi Island.

Mao Wenlong, who knew the emperor's mind, was scolding his adopted son Mao Chenglu in the tent.

"Don't talk about it again in the future."

Mao Wenlong stared at Mao Chenglu, who had been kicked in the head by a donkey, and saw his stupid look, so he simply said more clearly, "Wu Xue is the method used by Long Live to select generals. It comes from Wu Xue, which means that the emperor is a disciple. "

Mao Chenglu blinked his eyes, understood, cold sweat suddenly broke out on his back, kowtowed and said: "It's the child who is confused, and almost hurt his father."

Mao Wenlong snorted, sat down in the chair, waved his hands and said, "It's good to understand. Fortunately, there are no outsiders, otherwise..."

Shaking his head vigorously, Mao Wenlong didn't say any more, and his tone softened a bit, "Get up!"

Mao Chenglu stood up and stood aside with his head slumped, regretting in his heart: Why can't he figure this out, and still want to improve efficiency, and build a similar martial arts school in Dongjiang Town to train low-level officers on the spot?
"Martial arts also involves the reform of the military system, and we are not the ones who can be involved in it." Mao Wenlong warned again in a deep voice, and then explained: "The training of the Dongjiang Army has to be accelerated, and in more than a month, troops will be sent to fight .”

Mao Chenglu hurriedly bowed and replied: "In another month, the Dongjiang Fourth Association will have a firecracker battalion, supplemented by grenadiers and other artillery, which is enough to launch a large-scale attack on the Eastern captives."

Mao Wenlong was noncommittal, pondered for a while, and said: "Our army is newly built. Most of the officers and soldiers have not fought in battle yet, so they are not suitable for a war with the Eastern captives. First choose a weak place to attack. It can not only use battles as training, but also boost morale with small victories. "

"Then send more people to spy on the enemy's situation." Mao Chenglu said: "I also ask the commander-in-chief to let the boy fight this first battle, and he will surely win in return."

"There is no need to call father and son in the army." Mao Wenlong smiled and said, "How can this commander not know your dedication to meritorious service. Only by training your troops diligently will you be able to win the first battle."

Mao Chenglu bowed and saluted, and retired.

Mao Wenlong waited for his adopted son to leave the tent, then leaned over the map on the table, frowning slightly, looking for the enemy's loopholes.

Now, the Dongjiang Army has expanded to more than [-] people, [-] in each association, stationed in Phi Island, Guanglu Island, Changshan Island, Lu Island, and Zhangzi Island.

It can be said that the deployment of the Dongjiang Army is almost complete, spreading along the coastal islands of Liaodong and Liaonan, forming a strategic encirclement situation.

In the process of completing the strategic encirclement, the Dongjiang Army also took advantage of the navy to capture or destroy all the ships along the coast, making Houjin lose the ability to fight at sea.

Of course, Houjin didn't have any big ships and no navy, so it was relatively easy to keep them from going to sea.

In other words, it is more convenient for the Dongjiang Army to attack land from the sea.After all, with such a long coastline, Hou Jin couldn't fortify everywhere.

It's just that Mao Wenlong still wants to use more than a month of military training to continue scouting and spying to find the best attack point.

Moreover, the Ming army in western Liaoning abandoned Guangning, and the main force retreated straight to Ningyuan, leaving a large blank space.If Houjin sent troops to occupy it, it would be an easier opportunity for the Dongjiang Army.

Later Jin had so many troops, the wider the area, the more scattered it was.This is the reason why the so-called division of troops is weak.

It's just that Hou Jin was obviously aware of this problem, so he didn't mobilize, and even Guangning City didn't send troops.

(End of this chapter)