"Your Majesty, General Chen has a letter sent by a flying pigeon to report..." A guard hurried in and reported.

"Speak softly, Your Majesty just fell asleep!" Li Sanniang booed. Since he arrived at the water camp yesterday, the little emperor had no rest for a moment, so he learned about the situation, deployed troops, and formulated a combat plan. After the battle began in the morning, he kept a close eye on the development of the war. After the guard battalion had rescued the trapped assault team, he fell asleep in a chair. However, it took less than half an hour before he was urgently reported.

"But..." The guard was a little hesitant. He knew the emperor's temper and had already ordered the emergency military newspaper to be delivered in time at any time.

"I will bear everything. Your Majesty is too tired!" Li Sanniang took the message tube and said softly, but her tone was unquestionable.

"Yes!" The guard stood attentively and stepped back. In fact, among the emperor's many concubines, perhaps because he was from the military at the same time, the guards were most respectful and close to Concubine Shu, and treated him with military courtesy. After all, it was a great thing for a woman to lead a brigade of troops to fight on the battlefield. Moreover, during wartime, she often led the army to charge forward and made many military achievements. As for her identity as a slang person, she didn't care.

"Why did this happen again?" Li Sanniang was hesitant when she held the message tube. She had been in the army for many years and knew the consequences of privately dismantling secret letters, but Fei Ge's letters were often an emergency method that would be adopted only if it was urgent. If it was not dismantled, the consequences would be even more serious. She still opened the message tube for a moment. After reading it, she was shocked and couldn't help but murmured.

"What happened?"

"Your Majesty, I check the urgent report without authorization, please punish me!" Li Sanniang didn't expect that the little emperor would wake up after hearing her whispers and hurriedly saluted.

"There is something that comes true, so I won't be the example. What did you say?" Zhao Bing stood up, rubbed his eyes and waved his hands, not too harsh.

"Chen Dushuai urgently reported that the commando team crossing the river had four people who had broken their backs and fell in Guabu Town. According to analysis, it was already very bad. He decided to bring them back regardless of life or death. At present, the first squadron of the Guabu Town has set out for Guabu Town. However, the enemy stationed in Liuhe, Wanhu Mansion and Qianhu Institution of Changlu Town have all sent reinforcements and approached Guabu Town. He decided to transfer all the second regiment of the reserve team to land on the land to block the enemy reinforcements, and ordered the second regiment of the second regiment to prepare for crossing the river. He ordered the first division to recruit civilian ships and prepare for crossing the river on the river bank." Li Sanniang breathed a little relieved and briefly said.

"Hmph, I want to cover up the obvious!" Zhao Bing snorted coldly after hearing this, "Reply to the letter, I understand!"

"Your Majesty, is the previous sentence written as it is?" asked carefully.

"Well, don't move a word!" Zhao Bing nodded and said.

"Yes, I know it if I want to cover up the truth!" Joining the army was a little confused. These two sentences could be said to be inconsistent, so I repeated them again and confirmed them again.

"Yes, he will know what he means after seeing it!" Zhao Bing looked at the confused military officer and said.

"Yes!" The army joined the army quickly wrote down, then hurriedly sealed it up, and sent a messenger to quickly send it to the other side.

"Your Majesty..." Seeing that there was no one around you at this moment, Li Sanniang was very puzzled by the emperor's inexplicable reply, and wanted to ask, but wanted to speak but stopped.

"Haha, it doesn't matter to you." Zhao Bing smiled at his cautious look, "I am warning him to complete the task resolutely and not to give up halfway."

"Your Majesty, I didn't see what Chen Dushuai was hesitating!" Li Sanniang was still full of heads. She had just seen it and didn't find anything strange, but the little emperor concluded that he was trying to retreat and thought about it.

"There is nothing wrong with the deployment, but you also see that the guard camp has already headed to Guabu Town before its deployment. This shows that even if Chen Fenglin did not intend to retreat, there was a dispute between them. Only when the guard camp knew that the enemy reinforcements were coming would want to complete the task alone. Then he hurriedly reported it to me, which shows that he did not make up his mind to continue to fight. My reply was to tell him not to be lucky!" Zhao Bing explained.

"Your Majesty, if I were in front of the commander, I would feel hesitant and would not fight again if I felt it was better to fight again!" Li Sanniang thought about it and said.

"Oh, why?" Zhao Bing looked at Li Sanniang and said.

"Your Majesty, I think the enemy can mobilize troops at this time is a ten thousand house and two thousand houses. If they are in full swing, they can reach 20,000 people. Now our army has only two regiments crossing the river, with a force of three times less than the enemy, and they still fight back to the water. Moreover, the flat terrain in the north of the river is conducive to cavalry fighting. In this way, our army is difficult to form a strict formation when its troops are scarce, and it may be difficult to block the impact of the enemy cavalry brigade!" Li Sanniang said.

She knew that infighting between infantry and cavalry, the military formations needed to rank horizontally to expand their combat area so that they could exert the combat effectiveness of the weapons. Because if they were rank vertically, the soldiers in the rear row could not hit people and could not hit people. No matter how many people there were, it would be no longer there. Waiting for the front row to die, the rear row would have no morale. However, when the formation was arranged horizontally, it would have to go from a certain depth to avoid being broken by the enemy. However, when the troops were at a disadvantage and the lack of artillery support, the thin horizontal formation was difficult to stop the cavalry from attacking.

"You don't have to be sneaky, you can come and discuss together!" Zhao Bing saw the staff in the hall discussing military affairs with Li Sanniang, wanting to hear it but not daring to step forward, but hiding behind the screen and eavesdropping, and greeting them with a smile.

"Hehe, I thank Your Majesty and Concubine Shu!" Hearing the emperor's summons, all the staff in the hall gathered over and thanked with a smirk.

"No need to be polite, sit down and listen. You can give me any opinions!" Zhao Bing waved his hand and asked them to sit around the table and said.

"Your Majesty has no need to be polite, so don't be stubborn. Your Majesty was the same back then. He often sat on the steps at the door of the mansion to discuss military affairs with everyone!" An old official among the staff said with a smile.

"Haha, Old Li still remembers what happened back then! But I remember that you were in charge of the custody house back then, so why did you enter the military headquarters to take up a job today?" Zhao Bing looked at him and asked with a smile.

"Your Majesty still remembers the little old man, and I also entrusted his majesty with his majesty. In the past ten years, we have expanded the number of troops and the boats have risen. At first, they just took charge of the food of the first battalion, and then they were from a regiment and another division. After arriving in Jiankang, Chen Dushuai saw that the little old man was old and could still recognize a few words, so he asked the little old man to join the military headquarters and manage trivial matters such as money and grain." Li Gui said with a smile.

"It is a blessing for you to take charge of the first army's money and food. I don't have to worry! I remember that we ate the rice we allocated by the imperial court, and the amount was insufficient. It was because you carefully calculated that we could make everyone full!" Zhao Bing sighed, "Anyway, no matter whether you are a chef or a military money and food today, we must make a meal of stewed pork. I have not eaten it for many years and have made it by the imperial chef in the palace, but I can't taste the taste of the past. That's really delicious!"

"Okay, since Your Majesty loves food, the old man is happy to serve!" Li Gui sat down and smiled and bowed.

"Then it's time for Li to join the army. Your Majesty hasn't had a good meal for several days!" Li Sanniang also returned to him and said.

"Empress, don't be polite. Being able to serve Your Majesty is a blessing for humble duties!" Li Gui quickly returned the courtesy.

"Don't be polite. I'll eat Lao Li's specialty dishes at night. Everyone can satisfy their cravings. I thank everyone for their hard work for the past few days!" After a joke, the atmosphere eased, and Zhao Bing returned to the point of preaching. "Just just said that the cavalry was the most threatening force on the infantry. This statement cannot be wrong, but I dare not agree."

"I think in a practical sense, the emergence of chariots and cavalry has changed the rhythm of war. The most important thing is not the charge ability of cavalry and chariots, but their mobility. For war, it is not difficult to calculate the opponent's attack range and attack method, but it becomes extremely difficult to calculate the attack time because the opponent's movement speed has become faster. Among them, the fastest speed of cavalry often makes the opponent lose its precaution, and it is difficult to determine where the attack point is!"

"Your Majesty, can't we use long spears and shields in front of the queue to block the impact of the cavalry? In the past, our dynasty also used this to fight against the enemy cavalry, and we often win!" At this time, an aide said.

"Okay, good question!" Zhao Bing praised first, "There are many successful battle examples, but using a spear to fight against the enemy cavalry is actually a dangerous move. Everyone is a squad. You should know that with a spear in front, you can only arrange two rows at most. If one more row, the spear will have no place to extend and can only be lifted up, which is nothing. And the premise is that the first row of the square formation is a spear, so the second row of spears can extend a spear from the gap between the two of them in the first row. If there is another row behind, there will be no place to extend, because the front is the back of the first row of soldiers."

"If the first row is a shield soldier, then there can only be one row of spear soldiers, that is, the second row, with spears extending out of the gap between the shields. However, if there are shield soldiers in front, then this array is not used for dealing with cavalry, but for infantry. Because the huge shield will seriously block the sight of the soldiers behind. In addition, only shields can not block the collision of war horses. Even large shields with support specifically for dealing with cavalry will be knocked into the gap between the two shields by horses. If you don't believe it, you can try it yourself."

"A simple large formation can be used to deal with infantry, but it is not suitable for resisting cavalry. Because it is scary just looking at the front, if you are surrounded by cavalry, you will have no defense ability. Some people may say that infantry can also be trained to change formations at any time, and then change the direction of the spear. But everyone who has trained soldiers knows that small square formations are okay, and a large square formation composed of tens of thousands of people cannot change formations at any time, anyway," Zhao Bing said with a smile.

"And even if the formation can be changed, the cavalry doesn't care about going around you for a few more times. It takes several hours to get the horse tired. But if it is exhausted, I think one hour is enough. Even if the enemy cavalry attacks from the front, the square formation is very easy to break. The first row of cavalry only needs to tangent to the farthest spear, and then push away the layers of spears behind one by one, so that there will be no spear to keep the front direction, and then the second row of cavalry can successfully rush into the array to slaughter."

"Your Majesty, then can't the cavalry defeat it?" asked another staff member.

"There is no absolute thing in the world." Zhao Bing waved his hand, "I just said that the advantage of cavalry lies in their mobility, and their greatest ability lies in their rapid movement and constant harassment. And one of the most critical advantages is that they can take the initiative and attack a certain point on the entire battlefield. This allows them to often break through and tear the defense nets built by infantry, while infantry in other places fall into a difficult problem of embarrassment and reinforcement. It disturbs the deployment of the opponent, causing the infantry to advance and retreat, but they can calmly encircle and divide, making the cavalry seem invincible."

"So if you want to defeat the cavalry, the most important thing is to limit its mobility. Infantry can quickly build roadblocks and horse-resisting defenses that effectively prevent shocks; if you defend the city, you can use tall and strong city walls to block the cavalry. The horses can't even break the city walls. In addition, strategically, we can choose narrow mountains and areas that are not conducive to the cavalry's operations as the battlefield."

"Even if there is not a flat horse everywhere in the plain, by judging the movements of the enemy, we can choose to be unfavorable to the movement of the enemy, or areas such as cavalry, valleys, and valleys, and set up ambush to annihilate them, instead of using a battle formation to determine the victory or defeat with the enemy. Even if we have to fight with the enemy array, we can also use the cooperation of multiple troops to fight. At that time, the victory of cavalry by infantry was not simply infantry. The two wings often arranged cavalry to disrupt the attack deployment of the enemy cavalry, which is often said to be "the front is empty, the two wings are real". In addition, strong bows and hard crossbows and the firearms we equipped can cause great casualties to the enemy cavalry, causing their mobility to be lost."

"Your Majesty's intention is to adapt to local conditions and the times during the war, and choose the battlefield and tactics that are most conducive to promoting one's strengths, so as to achieve the effect of playing to one's strengths and avoiding one's weaknesses." An aide interrupted.

"Yes, that's right. Only by raising one's strengths and attacking the enemy's weaknesses can one achieve victory, rather than imitating it stereotypedly. In short, it's just about fighting, and there's no need to be too rigid!" Zhao Bing said slapped.

"Oh, there are paddy fields along the north bank of the Yangtze River, and it is the time to irrigate and plant rice seedlings. The enemy cavalry cannot come and go freely, so they can only choose the main road to advance. As long as our army blocks the main road, the enemy cavalry will find it difficult to leverage its maneuver advantage and will not be able to attack everywhere. If we enter the paddy field, the slow-moving enemy cavalry will be our target!" The aide said suddenly.

"Yes, as long as we control the key points in this battle, we can control the development of the battle situation." Zhao Bing nodded.

"Your Majesty, but the troops of the enemy and us are currently very different. If the enemy launches an attack on one point regardless of casualties, he will probably break through the defense line!" Li Sanniang said.
Chapter completed!