Let a French king be a teacher and teach the generals of the Ming Dynasty how to fight?

It sounds a little awkward!

"Your Majesty," the military master Li Yan spoke, "I have been in China for thousands of years, and I have passed down countless military books and tactics, as long as I learn it well, I will naturally be able to defeat the enemy, and I don't need to learn any Western art of war." ”

Zhu Cihong snorted in his heart: You are speaking for the scumbag generals under you, right? What are the tactics of war that have been passed down for thousands of years...... Do you recognize those words?

"Yes, yes, yes!" Wu Xiang immediately nodded, "I can't learn so many Chinese military books, where can I still learn any Western art of war?" Lao Chen felt that there was really no need for this. ”

Of course, Zhu Cihong won't listen to Wu Xiang - your son Wu Sangui has learned so many Chinese military books, and in the end, didn't he fight the rebellion of the three feudatories?

Wu Sanfu opened his eyes and said to Zhu Cihong: "Your Majesty, our Lu Division has been training with Western methods all these years, and I dare not say that we have exhausted its essence, but we have also learned eight or nine without leaving ten. Shi Ruien said that our Mohs phalanx is very powerful, even if the elite soldiers trained by the Mo government of the Netherlands, it is nothing more than that. ”

Pride and complacency!

Zhu Cihong set his eyes on Li Ruolian again, Li Ruolian shook his head: "Your Majesty, I don't know what this prince of France can teach us?" The way of using troops has always been adapted to the enemy's conditions, and the West is a small country and a widow, so how could there ever be such a strong enemy as the Eastern Invasion? The terrain of the West and China is different, the folk customs are different, and the national system is also different, so the military science that is suitable for the West may not be applicable to China...... Please also think twice, Your Majesty. ”

Although the new army of the Ming army has adopted a large number of Western methods in infantry regiments, battalions, companies, and other middle-level and grass-roots units and artillery units, the cavalry is still a traditional line in East Asia, and it is lackluster at the level of campaign organization.

To put it mildly, it is a bit like the French army at the beginning of World War II, although it was equipped with a large number of tanks and armored vehicles, but still wanted to fight trench warfare with the Germans.

It's not that the generals of the Ming army are stupid, but that there is no process of groping and summarizing.

Military science is basically empirical from the campaign level downwards, and what is emphasized is that new technologies are first available, then new equipment is developed, and then new tactics are explored, and finally there are mature campaign organization methods.

The new tactics, new tactics, and new methods of organizing campaigns in Europe were all slowly explored during the 30 years of war. Both Grand Condé and Dureni were the culminators of the Thirty Years' War, and not only did they participate in and command many successful battles, but they also had a large number of examples to learn from the experience of others.

And the generals in Zhu Cihong's new army, although they have mastered the Morris phalanx, can also build fortresses, and they also know how to use artillery. But except for the only few "new-style wars" that took place between the Ming and Qing dynasties, they have no examples to study.

There are no examples of war to study, and naturally it is impossible to "live" at the level of campaign organization.

Now that Mr. Kong has come to China to open a cram school with the examples and valuable experience of the Thirty Years' War, why don't you hurry up and sign up to learn?

Zhu Cihong set his sights on Zheng Zhilong, who "opened his eyes to see the world".

Zheng Zhilong said: "Your Majesty, the old minister knows that there are several young talents in the Dongning army, all of whom have learned the art of war in the martial arts hall and led soldiers in Dongning, why don't they all come and be the students of this Prince of France?" ”

The Dongning Army also has a land division, which is not large, but it is quite elite. Among them, the officers have all studied in the lecture hall, and several of them are very good. However, because the new army rejected the southerners, they could only serve as officers in the Dongning army.

Zhu Cihong smiled and said, "Okay, let's also let the senior brother pick a few generals to bring with you." ”

"Zheng Sen is coming too?" Zheng Zhilong asked.

"Of course!" Zhu Cihong smiled, "This lesson has to be made up!" Old Taishan, don't think that if the senior brother is a jinshi, he won't have to make up the class. ”

What the? Zheng Zhilong was stunned, Jinshi has to make up classes?

Zhu Cihong said: "Not only the senior brother wants to make up for this class, but Wu Sangui, Dai Wang, Shi Kefa, Zuo Maodi, Wu Guoyong, Li Chengdong, Huang Degong, Gao Jiedu, Hao Shaoqi all have to come to make up for the class!" Wu Xiang, Li Yan, Sanfu, Ruolian, you also have to make up for it! His tone was calm, "I'll make up this lesson with you too!" Whoever is named by me and who doesn't want to come will go home and take the children! ”

Well, Prince Condé has become a military tutor...... And the generals of the Ming Dynasty had to follow Zhu Cihong to go to cram school!

Everyone was stunned at this time, except for Zheng Zhilong, who was in charge of the accounts, they all had to go to cram school...... I also have to tutor with the dolls of the Dongning Army brought by Zheng Sen!

Old man Wu Xiang asked: "Then, are we still fighting with Dongyu?" ”

Yes, the generals have gone to cram school, and the battle is still not fought?

"No delay!" Zhu Cihong said, "Tutor first, and then go to play after you learn it...... Isn't it necessary to learn from scratch, and one year is not enough? ”

The first time I heard that there was going to be a war, the generals didn't even know how to fight, and they had to go to cram school to learn! Can this battle still be won?

Could it be that the Qi of the Great Qing Kingdom has not been exhausted?

......

The Prince of Contex of France, at this time, was escorted by Grand Duke Luo and Shi Ruien, deputy secretary of the Nanjing Jiangwutang, from Shanghai to Nanjing.

I didn't go by boat, but I rode all the Humpty Dumpty Hequ horses of the Wutang to Nanjing. In order to show the grandeur, Emperor Zhu also asked Shi Ruien to bring a team of large plate armored cavalry and a team of Xiaoling Guard Forbidden Army, with the cavalry in front and the infantry in the back.

At this time, just after the end of the year, it was the first month of the fifth year of Hongxing, and the western calendar was February 1652. The weather in Jiangnan is still very cold, there is snow on both sides of the official road, and many small streams and rivers are still covered with thin ice. Because of the cold weather, farming activities have not yet begun, but many towns along the route have begun to come alive, and commercial and handicraft production resumes immediately after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

In every town he passed, he could see a busy scene—the vitality of a country of 130 million people once it had entered the initial stage of capitalism in the great development of industry and commerce.

That's right, the current economy of the southeast of the Ming Dynasty, Huguang and Guangdong is no longer the "budding capitalism", but has crossed the high threshold and officially entered the primary stage.

The sign of entering the primary stage of capitalism is the "Hongxing Reform" promoted by Zhu Cihong from the eighteenth year of Chongzhen. There are two key points of Hongxing's reform, one is opening up - opening up to the inside and outside!

The second is the dismantling of the system of importation that existed in agriculture and industry and commerce—which means that the era of freedom and protection of private property is more protective, and the era of competition has arrived!

But Prince Condé was not an economic expert, and he had no idea that he was in the land of a country that was about to take off economically.

His attention was completely drawn to the European-style infantry and the seemingly uncoordinated cavalry around him.

The infantry of the Ming army looked great, except that the armor was made of patchwork plates instead of whole plates, and the muskets were fired with arquebuses, everything else could be compared to the best infantry in Europe.

By the way, these Chinese also "invented" a long bayonet that can be put on the muzzle, which is really a simple and practical design!

But their cavalry was very strange, and many of the big knights rode Humpty Dumpty horses...... And they were armored knights, and they carried bows and arrows, long-looking spears on their backs, and some of them carried an iron rod that could be used with one hand—how heavy it was! Can the pumpty ponies charge them?

"Ryan, these Chinese knights are all dismounted knights?" Kong Wang Ye finally couldn't help but ask.

The object of his questioning was Shi Ruien.

"Your Royal Highness," Shi Ruien, who was already an Earl himself, was still respectful to Prince Condé, and replied in fluent French, "They are the traditional cavalry of the East, and they can dismount and fight hand-to-hand, they can ride and attack, they can ride and shoot arrows, and they can also dismount and shoot arrows. Everyone is quite a brave warrior and is the elite of the Chinese army. ”

Kong Dai thought about it seriously, "I think I have found a major flaw in the Chinese army!" ”