Chapter 28                                                             �

Everything comes first and then comes, but now there are not many military generals who are truly civilians. Even Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou are all military families, let alone anything else. Indeed, the hereditary system of the garrison was an important reason for the decline of the military in the Ming Dynasty.

But it has to be admitted that the backbone force that supports the Ming border army is still the officers of the garrison system.

Even though Zhou Mengchen drastically killed a group of extremely corrupt officers in the guard station, he still had to appease and reuse the remaining officers who could barely use them.

If Zhou Mengchen really showed his chariot and horses, he would use other generals from his background to replace these people.

Zhou Mengchen is likely to face another Datong mutiny.

After all, politics is not a war. It is very popular, and the enemy and we are clearly distinguished. The war is open and the war is over. Instead, it is a failure.

Seeing the current situation, Zhou Mengchen naturally comforted him a few words and explained some things to Datong Academy. He asked Wu Guoshang to serve as a priest, that is, the principal and deputy director of Cheng Dawei, and posted notices in Datong Mansion to recruit students.

It's just that the situation is not ideal.

Because Datong is not Jiangnan in the end.

The literacy rate in Datong and the literacy rate in Jiangnan are very different.

Datong Academy is not a primary school student. Even if students do not require a high level of classics, history, mathematics, at least they can be able to read and write. Otherwise, these people will not understand anything. Could it be that they will teach words first when they are in class. This efficiency will be too slow.

However, Datong was originally poor, and most of the local people were military households. Even if they were not military households, they had no savings. Faced with the day and night threats of the Tartars, they were more willing to let their children learn a practical knowledge, such as martial arts.

Zhou Mengchen seemed to have discovered that it seemed that apart from some of the royal family members left by some officers and the Dai Wang family, there were not many people who could read.

Zhou Mengchen had no choice but to complete another subject.

In addition to literature, martial arts, mathematics and medicine, preparatory courses are established.

Preparations are almost gone in later generations. It is a complete compulsory education system in later generations, replacing preparatory courses in colleges. However, in foreign countries, it still existed in large quantities during the Republic of China. It is to take preparatory courses for one year before going to college and add some basic things.

Of course, this is a later story.

Zhou Mengchen has not yet noticed that there are such loopholes in his education plan.

Now Zhou Mengchen has arranged the matters of the academy. Ma Fang stepped forward and said, "Sir, I want to ask for advice. Is what I just said true?"

After hearing this, Zhou Mengchen said, "It is true in theory. But whether it can be done is another thing. Why do you want to realize this idea?"

Ma Fang took a deep breath and said, "That's right. My sir, our army has fewer cavalry than the Tartars, and no matter how much we compare, we can't compare to the Tartars. So our cavalry has to undertake more tasks, control the battlefield, find out the Tartars' location, and other functions. Now I only have more than 10,000 cavalry, so I really don't know what to do?"

"My wise, I can see the possibility of defeating the Tartar cavalry."

Zhou Mengchen said: "The possibility of defeating the Tartar cavalry?" He didn't believe it at all. In his opinion, the huge difference between the Ming cavalry and the Tartar cavalry on the battlefield was too great. Zhou Mengchen never thought that the cavalry could defeat the Tartar cavalry. More of the cavalry was placed in an auxiliary position, and other things were done by infantry.

This is not because Zhou Mengchen does not believe in the combat effectiveness of the Ming cavalry.

In fact, the strength is too great.

Zhou Mengchen never expected that in Ma Fang's opinion, it was so meaningful.

Ma Fang said, "Sir, I don't know that if the Tartar cavalry dares to fight with us one-on-one, I, Ma Fang, dares to guarantee that I can defeat all the Tartar cavalry teams, including Altan's direct troops, who is known as Qiexue. But on the battlefield, I followed the Old General Zhou and never had a fair showdown with the Tartars. They all fought with less."

"Once you fall into a battle, that is, what you said, the kind of back and forth hedging, our army's spirit will decline, and if you want to win, you have to fight hard."

"But there are many Tartar cavalry and fewer cavalry. If we are entangled, the rest of Tartar cavalry will have room for free movement, which is very detrimental to our army."

"When General Zhou was there, he always thought about how to defeat the Tartars."

"I especially instruct me to read more chapters about the Zhongxiao Army in the history of Jin."

Zhou Mengchen said: "Zhongxiao Army?"

If Zhou Mengchen had not studied history books hard in the Ming Dynasty, he would not know what army the Zhongxiao Army was.

The Zhongxiao Army was a trump army that fought against Mongolia in the late Jin Dynasty. The Mongolian cavalry was the best in the world, but the real battle in front of the battle may not be the opponent of the Zhongxiao Army. The most outstanding example of the Zhongxiao Army was to defeat 8,000 Mongolian cavalry with 400 cavalry.

You should know that at that time, the combat effectiveness of the Mongolian cavalry was quite considerable.

After all, the Mongolian team at that time was only more than 200,000, and almost all were elite.

This shows the ability of the Zhongxiao Army.

Ma Fang said: "Yes. General Zhou actually thought about imitating the Zhongxiao Army to train a cavalry, but the times were long and many things were lost. Moreover, he could not get the three times the food and salary of Zhongxiao Army."

"And the tactics of the Zhongxiao Army are too slow. They are easily entangled by Mongolian cavalry. And if the method proposed by the adults is truly completed, it is the real way to win."

The Zhongxiao Army selected soldiers who were good at riding and shooting, and guaranteed one person and two horses, three times the food and salary. The most tenacious one was the tactics of the Zhongxiao Army, which was the traditional tactics of the Jin army. It was said that the cavalry hedge back and forth was called one. However, the Zhongxiao Army's tactics were the traditional tactics of the Jin army. They claimed that they would not fight a full 100, so why did they call the horse army? As I just said, the cavalry hedging back and forth was called one. The Zhongxiao Army dared to fight a full 100, which was extremely confident in their physical strength and fighting will. Many Mongolians could not hold on.

Now the Datong cavalry cannot do this.

Either the battle will be in a melee, or the soldiers below will not be able to fight on their own.

Zhou Mengchen said, "Oh. Tell me, how can you decide the way to win?"

Ma Fang said: "If the cavalry tactics before were like playing horse hangs, then they would know who was wrong in the end. And this tactic is to roll dice, and you will know the size and size of it with one hand. The dense formation forces both sides to have no room to escape. When the two horses collided, neither side would be able to survive. It is to condense the danger of a hundred into one round."

"If you can't win, you will die, or if you win, you will die."

Zhou Mengchen was suddenly shocked and said, "So cruel."

Ma Fang said, "Please rest assured, your husband is brave enough to fight. The Tartars went south but only seek wealth. They have the intention to win, but they have no intention of dying. However, the men of Datong dared to bet on the Tartars to die for revenge for their parents and fellow villagers. On the battlefield, if they were timid, they would be able to get 90% of their abilities. I personally think that except for a few Tartars, there is no Tartars who dare to fight us."

This is the biggest fallacy on the battlefield, that is, the more people are not afraid of death, the more they can survive. The more afraid of death, the faster they die. What is even more unsolvable is that even if everyone knows this truth, it is difficult for everyone to do it.

As Ma Fang said, the airtight cavalry array hedged with the Tartars, it was like two motorcycles colliding on the same road. Once they collided, it would be difficult for the motorcycle riders on both sides to survive. However, one side turned around and the other side was a situation of chasing and killing. Moreover, the escape was likely to cause a chain reaction.

Moreover, when the hedge was really hedging, the Ming army was in dense formations, while the Tartars were loose formations. In this way, the hedging result was naturally unaware of it.

This is what Ma Fang thought of as a tactical level to defeat the enemy in the shortest time. Even if the enemy escapes, it will not damage the vitality and it is very likely that order will be restored soon, but this kind of quickness is also calculated in units of days.

Unless they have never thought about fighting since the beginning and have the intention to avoid fighting.

This is also good news for Ma Fang, which means that the Datong cavalry can drive more Tartar cavalry away with fewer men and horses.

Zhou Mengchen had this idea, and at this moment, he heard Ma Fang’s implication: “What do you mean?”

Ma Fang said: "The last general asked the Lord to build a cavalry like a thousand cavalry according to the treatment of the Zhongxiao Army, one man, two horses, and three times the military salary. It is used to defeat the enemy in the face of battle."
Chapter completed!