Hu Guozhu's face became serious, he had barely fought with the Ming army before, but he had heard the news of the Ming army sporadically, and felt that the exaggerated elements were still relatively large.

Qu Songjin stood at the head of the city and looked at the army under the city was not too nervous, when the Ming army was the most insufficient, he could rely on Tongguan to block the Manchu army, and now in this case it is much stronger than at the beginning, but the lion fights the rabbit and still does his best, although the army of the Zhou Dynasty may not be as good as the Qing Dynasty, but it is also careless.

Cheng Xiaolian stood in the courtyard of the mansion and looked at the information on the city head that was collected from all over the place, because his body was not yet well, so Qin Yue said that he would not agree to let him go to the city to watch the battle, after all, after being seriously injured, he hurt his vitality, and if he was injured by mistake again, he was afraid that he would have to lie down for a while.

Cheng Xiaolian was not reluctant, after being seriously injured, he learned a sentence, listened to the advice of people to eat a full meal, and there were many of him alone on the head of the city to defend the city, and now he occupies the city of Beijing, and the morale of the soldiers is unprecedentedly high, everyone is rushing to the founding of the country, which is a major event of glory to the ancestors, even if they do not get mixed with any noble positions, it is also a glorious thing to talk to their grandsons when they are old, and they follow His Majesty to fight in the south and the north, so they naturally know that His Majesty will not treat them badly.

Now that the Ming Dynasty is about to return to the country, whoever stops them will be their enemies, and they will never die, so there is no need for Cheng Xiaolian to worry about improving morale, Cheng Xiaolian just mobilized the personal guard battalion around him and some Jinyi guards to continuously summarize the information of the four city heads.

Chen Chengan found something novel, it turned out that Cheng Xiaolian had people build a small Beijing city with fine sand and wooden planks as early as two days ago, and there was naturally no need to build it in the city, but a few city gates were erected, and the villains of various arms were burned with clay and placed under the city, and now they are restoring the real situation of the battlefield according to the information sent by the personal guard battalion.

Now that the ladders made of bamboo have been built on various city walls, Cheng Xiaolian looked at the distribution of troops outside the city and smiled: "It seems that Hu Guozhu really plans to attack from all sides, and the strength of each city wall is almost the same." ”

Chen Chengan also smiled: "He hasn't fought with us before, so he is a little bigger, and the situation in front of him is obviously the idea of beating the master to death with a mess, and I am afraid that he will have to change his strategy after today." ”

Cheng Xiaolian nodded: "Reasonable." ”

"Your Majesty, I've heard of such a thing as a sand table before, but I've never seen such a delicate thing."

"The general is out on the march, and every time he encounters a different situation, the simpler it is to build a temporary sand table, the better, but now I am restricted from going to the city wall to watch the battle, so I have this kind of thing that I have the leisure to build. Ordinary generals will never use this thing, if you only pursue the accurate restoration on the battlefield, isn't it just talking on paper, the battlefield is about improvisation, with the change of the enemy to make the most appropriate response, you can defeat the strong with the weak, if you only restore the situation on the battlefield, according to the book of war arrangement, it is bound to defeat. ”

Chen Chengan nodded: "Listening to your words is better than reading for ten years, and the ancients will not deceive me." ”

Yang Youcai looked at Chen Chengan resentfully on the side: "Mr. Chen, how can a high-spirited person like you even do dirty work like sycophancy?" ”

Chen Chengan laughed: "In the past, Gao Feng Liangjie was high in his bones, but now that he has a wife and children, he can't be high in his bones." ”

Cheng Xiaolian also laughed: "Yang Youcai, someone will rob the business in the future, the quality of your sycophant will be improved, otherwise I will easily cut off your head in anger." ”

At this time, a team of soldiers ran over again: "Your Majesty, there has been a new change in Nancheng. Hu Guozhu sent out archers to suppress. ”

Cheng Xiaolian nodded: "It seems that Hu Guozhu is going to shift his focus to the southern city, in the case of beating the master indiscriminately, the best way is to concentrate his forces on one city gate, once one city gate is broken, the other three city gates are not broken, which is also a common situation on the battlefield." ”

Immediately afterwards, another group of people rushed in: "Your Majesty, a team of archers has appeared in the northern city. ”

Before they could catch their breath, two teams of men and horses from Dongcheng and Xicheng also rushed back: "Your Majesty, a team of archers has appeared under the city. ”

Chen Chengan laughed: "It seems that this Hu Guozhu is also very shrewd, knowing that if he doesn't make a false shot, the city head will soon make a response strategy, and the time between you and me is wasted, only in this way, when the city head sees through his true intentions, his strategy has been completed." ”

The three people present were not very nervous about this, Qu Songjin didn't know how many times he had seen this battle, there must be a way to deal with it, even if he couldn't deal with it, there were still so many reservists in the city, and if he supported the head of the city, he would not be breached by anyone.

It's just that in this back-and-forth battle, whoever can calculate the other side can take advantage, and one or two may not decide the outcome of the war, but after a long time, it can determine the trend of the war.

Yang Youcai was a little stunned when he looked at the situation on the sand table, but Cheng Xiaolian personally placed the archers behind the siege army of the four city gates, and scratched his head when he saw this: "How can there be so many archers in the army?" ”

You must know that if you want to suppress the defenders of a big city like Beijing, you need at least 500 archers under each city, and according to the information just sent, there are more than 1,000 archers under each city wall, which is more than 4,000 archers.

Although Hu Guozhu's army is claimed to be 200,000, Jinyiwei has long estimated that his true number is about 100,000 to 150,000, and these people belong to no more than half of Hu Guozhu's army, and the army of 50,000 to 80,000 will definitely not be equipped with so many archers.

Chen Chengan said on the side: "The ordinary soldiers in this army will conduct simple bow and arrow training, will they pull these people out to shoot arrows?" ”

Cheng Xiaolian stretched out his hand: "You look at the distance, at least two hundred steps away, I have practiced archery, and I still shoot upwards at such a distance, I must be an archer specially trained in the army." ”

Each branch of the army has a detailed classification, after all, in this era, a year in the army can be regarded as a veteran, a year of running in the military formation and training skills are not enough, only soldiers who are specially trained according to archers can suppress the city at such a distance.

Yang Youcai pouted: "They like to train archers, and fighting with people is to shoot back the enemy with random arrows, so archers are trained a little more." ”

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