The brutal whipping shocked all the officers and soldiers present, and they watched these dozens of soldiers being beaten to a bloody blur, and the trace of resentment in their hearts disappeared, replaced by the feeling of sadness of the rabbit and the fox, and at the same time, they were deeply glad that it was not themselves who violated discipline and disobeyed orders. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Lin Weiye sighed softly: "Is it necessary to govern the army like this? It looks a little unbearable, they just don't want to hurt their relatives. ”

"A woman's kindness." Xia Nan glanced at him, "Soldiers take obedience to orders as their duty, no matter what era, the best army is a killing machine without thoughts." It's a pity that we don't have the brainwashing methods like TG, and there is no revolutionary thinking in this time and space, so we can't use the 'branch built in the company', so we can only use the brute method of carrots and sticks. If you act according to your compassion, you will degenerate into the Eight Banners Army at the end of the Qing Dynasty sooner or later. ”

At the end of the execution, the wounded soldiers were carried into the room to apply medicine to the wounds, and the soldiers who watched the execution returned to their posts according to the formation. This time, "killing chickens and setting an example for monkeys" deeply engraved a brand in the hearts of the soldiers of the Independent Regiment, and since then, the Independent Regiment has never violated military discipline since then.

Xia Nan and Lin Weiye walked side by side to the officer's dormitory - the so-called officer's dormitory is actually similar to the bungalow where the soldiers live, but it has been changed from a chase shop to a double room or a single room - tonight Xia Nan plans to live in the barracks, and he still has some ideas to communicate with Lin Weiye.

Xia Nan asked: "When did the Tartars retreat, did they have many cavalry, did they catch Dingkou?" ”

"Almost everyone in the Tartars rides horses...... The retreat was just this morning, and a lot of people were arrested, and the baggage seemed to be too much, and there were so many drags, even if everyone rode a horse, it was estimated that they would not be able to run fast......"

"It's only been a day, and you're still dragging your tail, can't you run fast?" Summer Nan held her chin and groaned.

Lin Weiye has partnered with him for several years, and they are very familiar with each other, and when they saw him like this, they knew that they were going to do something, and asked in surprise: "You don't plan to catch up, do you?" ”

Xia Nan smiled: "If I were in Lingao at the moment, I wouldn't have come all the way to fight the Tartars." But who told me to worry that you would hang, so I just ran here? Anyway, it's all here, and Abatai is just a partial division, and if he doesn't catch up and fight, he feels uncomfortable, as if he missed the five million jackpot......"

Lin Weiye said helplessly: "People are also Baylor of Houjin, I heard that he is also a very old general, not a fledgling rookie, do you think he is here to give you a head?" I missed out on five million. ”

"Hehe, it's not enough to give away people's heads, Abatai is also quite famous in history, but because of this, I have to catch up with him while he is alone, and it will be difficult to fight when he and Azig meet. The population of Houjin is sparse, whether it is a soldier or a general, one less one dies, if the Jurchens are almost dead, there will be only those Han troops and Mongols left, and the trees will fall and scatter in minutes, no matter how much Huang Taiji can toss, he can't jump up. ”

"You're talking light, but how can a Tartar be so easy to kill!" Lin Weiye shook his head, "I take the independent regiment, or rely on the fortress to compete with it, and it is difficult to say about the field battle." ”

"You don't have to lift the tartar too high, either." "They have their own advantages, but not as exaggerated as history says. The end of the Ming Dynasty was a rotten era, and the fundamental reason why Houjin was able to enter the Central Plains was because of the problems of the Ming Dynasty itself, political corruption, army erosion, and the famine caused by the Xiaoice River and the peasant uprising caused by land annexation, which allowed Houjin to take advantage of the void. But if an army is slightly more well-trained and morale, it can compete with the so-called 'invincible' Tartars. In the Battle of Hunhe that year, Qi Jiguang's Zhejiang soldiers and Sichuan Baipole soldiers were only 7,000 people together, and they were inseparable from tens of thousands of Tartars. ”

Lin Weiye frowned and said, "What you said is not unreasonable. However, even if I don't understand military affairs, I know the importance of mobility. The Tartars are almost all cavalry, and even if they can't walk fast with the drag of their baggage, they are much stronger than our two legs. Now that they've been gone for a day, even if you leave tomorrow morning, can you catch up a day late? Even if you are tired and tired to catch up, how can you fight each other when you are exhausted? And the cavalry fights the infantry, even if they can't beat it, they leave their baggage and run away, the initiative is in their hands, do you want to fight this kind of battle? ”

Xia Nan gave a thumbs up: "I still don't understand military affairs, what I said is very reasonable!" I was really impressed by the experience on the battlefield. ”

At this time, the two had already returned to the dormitory where Lin Weiye lived. Xia Nan said: "Take out a pen and paper, you are from Shandong, you should be familiar with the terrain of Shandong, draw a map of the northeast coast of Shandong, and analyze it." ”

Lin Weiye didn't know what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd, so he took out a pen and paper and simply sketched a local map of the Shandong coast.

Xia Nan pointed to the depression of the Shandong Peninsula on the map and asked, "What is this location?" ”

Lin Weiye recalled and replied: "It should be near Changyi, according to the administrative division of this time and space, it is about the junction of Laizhou and Qingzhou. ”

Xia Nan shouted outside the door: "Come on, call Ma Wei." ”

After a while, Ma Wei entered the house, and Xia Nan beckoned him to come over to look at the map and asked, "Tell me, how far can a cavalry run in a day, and how far can a Tartar run with a baggage?" ”

Ma Wei silently estimated and replied: "General, with the experience of his subordinates, if it is a light horse like the Mongols, and the terrain is flat, it can run about 200 miles a day, and it is possible to run 300 miles without sparing horsepower; Most of the Tartars wear heavy armor, and 200 miles a day is the limit. If you count the drag of the baggage, you can travel 80 miles a day at most, otherwise, those dingkou will be exhausted to death, and the Tartars will catch people in vain. ”

Xia Nan heard that he had a bottom in his heart, pointed to the location of Changyi and asked: "I heard that in order to suppress horse thieves, you chased from Laizhou to Qingzhou, so how far is this place at the junction of the two prefectures from Dengzhou?" ”

Ma Wei recalled for a moment and replied firmly: "About 300 miles." ”

Lin Weiye looked at the map and asked suspiciously, "Why do you repeatedly ask about the place of Changyi?" ”

Xia Nan replied: "Because the Tartars go in the direction of the capital, unless they want to take a detour and not take a straight line, they must go along the coastline until the location of this coastline depression, that is, Changyi, after this point, the terrain changes, and the Tartars are getting farther and farther away from the coastline." ”

Lin Weiye suddenly realized: "Do you want to take advantage of our water advantage? ”

"Yes, two legs can't outrun four legs, but a ship on the sea is faster than four legs." Summer Nan tapped the map heavily, "I'm going to chase the Tartars along the coast!" ”