Chapter 135 The art of war upgrades, three purples!
The Art of War skill finally reached Level 5. He saw three purple lights flashing in front of his eyes. Su Ze was overjoyed. His luck was back?
These three passive skills are:
[Purple Passive - Han Xin Points Troops: When leading troops to fight, tactical skills +2, charm +5. ]
[Purple Passive - Xiao He Zuozan: When coordinating logistics, military skills +2, charm +3, intelligence +2. 】
【Purple Passive - Zhang Liang's Strategy: When formulating strategic plans, military skills +2, intelligence +5. 】
Su Ze was stunned at this moment. These three skills were so good that he couldn't choose between them.
These three skills are respectively front-line command operations, logistics supply and strategy formulation, and also correspond to the three directions of military generals.
Su Ze felt very distressed no matter which one he gave up, but it was a pity that he could only choose one now.
Su Ze thought for a long time and ruled out the first one.
It is enough to lead the troops in battle personally, and now having Lin Mojun under his command is enough.
What Su Ze struggled with was the second and third passive.
Those who are good at fighting have no great achievements. Among the three founding heroes of the Western Han Dynasty, Xiao He was ranked first in credit by Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, but no one disagreed. The reason is that Xiao He alone instigated the logistics work of the Han Dynasty during the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony, and never made any mistakes. , food can be sent to the army at any time.
Logistics work is a very complex and professional job, but Su Ze quickly decided to give up this passive position.
The reason is also very simple. An important change in modern military is the institutionalization and specialization of logistics.
If one person cannot complete complex logistics supplies, then the work should be split up and a professional staff organization should be formed to do it.
The third skill is what Su Ze needs most!
A hundred generals are easy to get, but a handsome man is hard to find!
Strategist is the most scarce profession in ancient and modern times at home and abroad!
Su Ze decisively chose the third passive skill. Su Ze looked at the remaining free attribute points and added this attribute point to strength.
The reason is also very simple. When using the "Blacksmith" skill of the liver, Su Ze's strength was low, which delayed the efficiency of the liver skill.
For now, the top priority is to quickly upgrade the blacksmith skill to Level 5 before you can start trying to make firearms.
However, Su Ze still had no idea whether Level 5 could make a gun. You must know that the difficulty of making a gun barrel is not low. If it is not made well, it will explode.
In comparison, artillery casting is less difficult, but casting artillery requires a large amount of metal materials, which requires not only casting skills, but also smelting skills.
There are still too few talents under his command. Whether it is making guns or cannons, it requires repeated trials. I don’t know where there are talents in the Ming Dynasty who can cast cannons and make guns.
After adding attribute points, the panel changed to:
Su Ze, male, 25 years old.
Intelligence: 10 (a little less last time)
Strength: 10
Agility: 4
Charm: 6
Feeling the power in his muscles, Su Ze felt that he could rush to the blacksmith shop and swing the hammer a hundred times!
The next day, it was the day to go to the city to study at the end of the month. When Su Ze was preparing to ride into the city, Lin Liangjun suddenly rushed into the family temple and said to Su Ze: "Brother A Ze! My brother asked me to tell you not to enter. The city is in trouble! The mining pirates are causing trouble and have cut off the road into the city!"
Su Ze tightened the reins. He thought of the mines in the upper reaches of Jianxi River and asked, "The mining pirates are making trouble? Are they the ones in the upper reaches of Jianxi River?"
Lin Liangjun said: "Go to Baihu Station quickly, my brother is calling you to come over to discuss matters!"
Su Ze followed Lin Liangjun to Baihu Station, only to see that Lin Mojun had summoned his subordinate Xiaoqi and was discussing matters in Baihu Station. .
Lin Mojun sat at the top, and Su Ze crossed the many flags and sat directly beside her. Xiao Qi, who was reporting, immediately saluted Su Ze, and then said: "Hundred households, Mr. Su,
this group of mining thieves are not the number one." There was chaos in the sky. Deng Dai, the leader of the mining bandits, known as the seventh descendant of Deng Mao, gathered a group of refugees under his command and started mining privately in the mountains." It turned out to be
mining bandits, not a rebellion by the miners.
At first, Su Ze thought it was the miners in the government-run mines upstream who were rebelling, but he didn't expect it to be mine pirates.
How could I have forgotten the mining bandits, a rebel group with Ming characteristics?
Fujian also has a long tradition of rebellion. Among them, the largest rebellion in the mid-Ming Dynasty, the uprising of Ye Zongliu and Deng Maoqi, originated from mining pirates.
There were still some silver mines in Fujian, Zhejiang and Shanxi for a generation. The court prohibited people from going into the mountains to mine privately. However, some refugees who could not survive would hide in the mountains and mine privately, forming a group of mining pirates.
Ye Zongliu and Deng Maoqi started their rebellion in the ninth year of Zhengtong. It took the Ming court six years to put down the rebellion. Deng Maoqi was from Sha County, Yanping Prefecture. It is no wonder that Deng Dai, who rebelled today, is known as the Queen of Deng Maoqi. people.
After Ye Zongliu and Deng Maoqi were put down, the Ming court still could not prevent the refugees who could not live to hide in the mountains and become mining pirates. At this time, the prefectures and counties also pretended that these mining pirates did not exist. Anyway, as long as they did not Just go down the mountain and rebel.
Su Ze asked: "Why is Deng Dai rebelling now?"
Xiao Qi, who was investigating, said: "Mr. Su, the mining supervisor Eunuch Hu forced him too hard. The miners in the official pit really couldn't survive and went up the mountain. Eunuch Hu transferred him again." The soldiers went up to the mountain to arrest people, which is why Deng Dai started to rebel."
Su Ze could only lament that there is nothing new under the sun. No matter how many failed demonstrations the predecessors have made, future generations will not learn any lessons.
"So what's the situation with the mining pirates now?" "
I heard that the government has sent the Yanping Guards out of the city to suppress them. I don't know if the official troops have arrived."
Lin Baihu said: "We Changning Guards are sea guards. It is not our duty to suppress the local area. As long as these mining bandits do not attack Changning Guard, we should not act rashly."
Then Lin Baihu said to Su Ze: "The road is impassable, Mr. Su should not enter the city yet, and wait until the army drives away the mining bandits."
Su Ze Ze could only nod. Unexpectedly, Nanping would be in chaos before the Japanese pirates arrived.
But things in this world will always develop in the worst direction.
Commander Yu of the Yanping Guards was very reluctant, but the guarding eunuch Hu was trapped in an official pit by mining thieves. If the miner's rebellion was not resolved and the news spread, both the prefect and Commander Yu would be in trouble.
In the end, Commander Yu could only reluctantly send three of his subordinates, Chen Xiong, to serve as the general banner and lead troops out of the city to quell the rebellion.
The road was cut off, and Su Ze could only wait for news about the army's suppression of the rebellion, but he was not idle either. He led a group of military remnants aboard the New World and dismantled the four Franco cannons in the gun room.
"Slow down! Go left!"
The little carrot head found it interesting. He watched Su Ze directing the soldiers to use a sling to lower the Fo Lang machine gun from the ship. Su Ze also used the wood in the dock to build a wooden gun carriage and put the Fo Lang machine gun down. The Lang machine gun was installed on the gun carriage.
"Brother Aze, isn't this just a cannon? Our Changning Guard has also had one. Is it really that powerful?"
Su Ze remembered that Changning Guard also had an abandoned cannon foundry. He smiled and said, "We'll find out if it's powerful or not. We'll try it right away!"
Captain Alfonso and the gunners on the New World looked at Su Ze. After the Folan cannon was dismantled, the old captain gave up resistance long ago.
But Su Ze not only wanted his cannon, but also his gunner. Captain Alfonso always had an awkward feeling. Why was this plot so similar to the scene where his estranged wife and the old Wang next door teamed up to ask for his property?
The gunners on the New World were also one of the few Portuguese on the ship. These days, gunners were definitely a high-tech branch of the military. If it were a warship, the person responsible for operating the gun would have to be an officer. Everyone in Changning Guard, including Lin Baihu and his grandfather, followed Su Ze to the temporary artillery field outside Changning Guard.
After fixing the gun carriage, Su Ze asked the Franco machine gunner to load the gunpowder shells, then put the sub-cylinder into the mother cylinder, and ordered the gunner to light the fuse.
Su Ze hid far behind. The artillery job these days was a high-risk profession. More gunners died from the explosion of their own cannons than from the enemy's fire.
After a loud noise, the cannonball flew out from the muzzle. The solid iron ball bounced on the ground a few times. I don't know whether it was luck or accurate aim. The beating iron ball accurately landed on the abandoned wooden house, blowing the wooden house. A wall collapsed.
Everyone present was silent. It took Lin Mojun a long time to say: "With such a magical weapon, it's no wonder that my father was defeated by the Japanese pirates." Everyone in Changning Guard was a little scared, if it hadn't been for the New World that ran aground on the
shore On the other hand, these four cannons alone are enough to defeat Changning Wei's ships.
Unlike the shock of everyone in the Changning Guard, Su Ze was disappointed with the power of the Folan cannon.
That's it? That's it?
It’s no wonder that the Ming court quickly gave up on the Folan cannon after acquiring the red cannon. By the Chongzhen period, the Ming court basically cast red Yi cannons.
The power of the Folan cannon is really average. Such shells can only be used to kill densely packed people or wooden ships. They are definitely not suitable for attacking cities.
Su Ze called the gunner over and said to him in Portuguese:
"If you write a training manual for gunners to fire, you can live on the shore like Captain Alfonso."
This Portuguese gunner had already had enough of the island. Despite the messy environment, he immediately happily agreed.
Lin Mojun said to Su Ze in a low tone: "With such a magic weapon, what's the point of training soldiers?"
Su Ze saw Lin Mojun's lonely expression, obviously because of the power of the cannon, which made him doubt his life.
Su Ze said: "It's still too early for artillery to eliminate infantry!"
Lin Mojun looked at Su Ze and heard Su Ze say:
"Artillery costs a lot of money. A shell contains gunpowder. This cannon will be close when it fires. One tael of silver or ten thousand taels of gold when the cannon
goes off is no joke." Lin Mojun took a breath. A well-trained soldier can spend at most two taels of silver a month. These two cannonballs are worth It's enough to last for a month.
Su Ze added: "In addition, artillery also has a lifespan. No matter how well-maintained an artillery is, there will be a risk of exploding the barrel over time." "In addition to costing a lot of money, artillery is heavy and difficult to move.
If it is charged by someone, In front of the formation, the artillerymen become prisoners."
"In addition, there are no countermeasures to deal with the artillery."
Lin Mojun immediately asked: "What countermeasures are there?"
Su Ze said: "Disperse the line, the soldiers do not want to When they gather together, the power of the artillery shells will naturally decrease."
Lin Mojun said: "How can we defend against the enemy without forming an array?"
Su Ze said, "Of course we need to strengthen training. Only when the quality of individual soldiers improves, can we defeat the enemy without forming an array. Against the enemy."
Su Ze did not say the rest. Skirmishing tactics also depended on the advancement of weapons. Only when the next generation of bolt-action rifles is developed can skirmishing tactics be fully effective.
However, after entering the age of artillery, infantry commanders are also improving tactics, using dispersed soldiers to reduce artillery damage, and using fortifications to resist artillery bombing. These all appear naturally.
Artillery and infantry are like a pair of mortal enemies who love and kill each other. They constantly develop tactics to restrain each other and advance together.
After comforting Lin Mojun, Xiaoqi, who was responsible for inquiring about the news, hurried to the artillery field before pushing the Folang cannon back to Changning Guard.
"The Yanping Guards were defeated? Three hundred households were wiped out?"
Su Ze and Lin Mojun both took a breath. No matter how hard the Yanping Guards pulled their hips, they wouldn't be able to defeat the mining thieves, right?
Even if we can't defeat them, they won't be completely wiped out, right?
Su Ze quickly asked: "What happened?"
Xiao Qi, who was inquiring about the news, said: "Among Deng Dai's mine thieves were a group of elites armed with Japanese knives. When the Yanping guard Chen Baihu led his troops to the mine, they were killed by this A group of elite soldiers broke through the formation, and Chen Baihu was hacked to death on the spot. Deng Dai led the ambush troops to fight out, and the entire Yanping Guard army was wiped out!" Su Ze and
Lin Mojun couldn't help but be shocked, now the situation in Nanping County is getting worse. .
The news of Yanping Wei's defeat reached Nanping County, and the atmosphere in the entire county became even more tense.
In the prefect's yamen, the prefect was pacing back and forth, and the three hundred households who went to rescue the mine supervisor were wiped out. Now it was more difficult to put down Deng Dai's gang of mining thieves.
The government office and the staff discussed it for a long time, but could not come up with any useful plan.
The prefect was anxious to get angry, but there was no other way.
He returned to the back house and found that his daughter Fang Ruolan had prepared a table of food and was waiting for him.
Magistrate Fang's heart felt warm, and Fang Ruolan immediately brought the rice bowl and said,
"Dad, you'd better eat first."
Magistrate Fang hurriedly finished eating, and Fang Ruolan served herbal tea again. After drinking the herbal tea, Magistrate Fang couldn't help but said,
"This Yanping The guards are so useless! Three hundred people couldn't defeat the mining bandits! They actually ruined the situation to such an extent!" Naturally, the
Yanping Guards suffered such a huge loss and couldn't hide it from the higher ups. Now the guarding eunuchs couldn't rescue them and they were damaged. With so many troops, the key is that with Deng Dai's reputation, the nearby bandits will inevitably defect to him. If he continues to sit in the Yanping Mansion, there will never be peace.
Fang Ruolan said: "Dad, my daughter has said it a long time ago. The Yanping Guards, except Jin Xu, have long been defeated. Last time the Japanese invaders attacked the city, no one in the Yanping Guards dared to go out to fight. You still have to send them to quell the rebellion.
" Then who should be sent?"
Fang Ruolan said: "Changning Guards, the Black Mountain Bandits were put down by Changning Guards last time, and the Black Mountain Bandits' heads are still hanging on the city wall?" "But
Changning Guards Guihai Road Yamen and Beiwa Commander-in-Chief Supervisor."
"Dad, if there are Japanese knives among the mining pirates, there must be Japanese pirates mixed in. Preparing for Japanese pirates is also the responsibility of Changning Guards. Dad can use this to mobilize troops first, and then explain to the superiors." "That's true!
I Let's write the article now!"
Fang Ruolan said again: "Please ask Chang Ning Wei to send troops, and dad must promise something. Otherwise, if they don't do their best, the situation will be out of control." Fang Zhifu stroked his beard and said, "
My daughter thought she had to promise something . What?"
Fang Ruolan smiled: "My daughter thinks this reward should not be given out by the government, but what does father think?"
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