Yue'er heard Zheng Yunming's seemingly plausible truths as she tilted her head, as if she was looking at the storyteller who was talking about the gods and monsters in Lin'an Mansion.

Wang Deng, who had just got rid of the crowd, walked over sweating profusely and reported: "The generals have already assembled in the camp and are waiting for your order."

In front of the central army's tent, the bodies of He Dajie, deputy general of the right wing battalion and seven dead team officials were placed.

Ge Huai, the other four generals and Qin Wu, led the surviving team officials to form a neat queue, waiting for the arrival of the main general.

Zheng Yunming quickly walked to the front, straightened his clothes and bowed to the bodies of the fallen soldiers and bowed three times.

"Life is what we want, and righteousness is what I want." Zheng Yunming, the living person, said seriously: "But a gentleman knows the principle of what is more important in the face of crisis! Everyone can say that sacrifices his life for righteousness, but how many people can truly put it into practice?"

"But today, the bloody men here did it!"

"A person will die in the end, but it is meaningful to die. Today, the comrades lying here died for the emperor's service, for the elders of Shashi, and for the entire robe of Tulong. I envy them a little because they really died!

"Although their names may not be left in the history books of the country, the Tulong Army will be remembered forever as long as it exists for one day!" Zheng Yunming said to Zhu Sheng: "Brother Zhu Sheng, I have no staff under my tent yet. You will write down the history of our army first. After you recruit the books in the future, you will organize them in detail."

"Not only that!" Wang Deng, behind Zheng Yunming, added loudly: "The elders of Shatou City also decided to donate money to carve a stone tablet at the door of the market, engraving the names and deeds of all the sacrificed soldiers on it. In this way, everyone entering Shatou City, whether travelers, people or businessmen, can see what the Tulong Army soldiers have done and what sacrifices they have made on this land!"

This is undoubtedly a very heavy honor. Zheng Yunming found that everyone's eyes were shining with the light of hope.

This is exactly what he hopes to see. If the soldiers see no hope in the eyes of a war, even if they win by chance, victory will not last.

"In the future, I will report to the General Office and put all the tablets of the sacrificed soldiers into the ancestral halls of their hometowns, so that the elders of the hometown will remember from generation to generation that their children sacrificed their lives for the country and sacrificed their lives for the emperor. This will become the eternal glory of the clan town!" Zheng Yunming stroked his chest and pointed to the sky and said, "The heaven is above. If Zheng Yunming had a day of life in the future, I hope to add a little glory to the Zheng family ancestral hall in this way!"

"Come up and take a look at your comrades for the last time! Their heroic souls will always shine on the latecomers of the Earth Dragon Army to move forward!"

After the serious and short memorial ceremony, the generals gathered in the central army's tent, and their generals had another thing to say here.

"You are all senior commanders of our army." Zheng Yunming's voice returned from passion to calm as usual: "For you, the sacrifices of these robes must have more practical significance."

"How did He Dajie sacrifice?" Zheng Yunming asked, "I only looked at the Tartar who killed him from a distance from the gatehouse. Does anyone know his identity?"

"Ask the prisoners what they know." Hu Yanyu bowed and replied: "That seems to be the son-in-law of the Mongolian Khan, named Zhasarbuhua. The prisoner confessed that the son-in-law was always known for his courage in the Northern Army, and was known as the magical hand of whipping arrows."

"Is the magical hand of the whip arrow..." Zheng Yunming ordered: "I remember it. If you meet this person again in the future, no matter where you get, you will first reward him with a crossbow to let him know what he is afraid of. You should not use the whip arrow with such a powerful force."

Zhu Sheng nodded and said yes, Zheng Yunming continued to ask: "How did all the team officials die?"

Wang Deng took a step forward and said, "After the inspection, four people were killed by the bows and arrows of the Mongolian army under the city, two people died in a fight with the Dengcheng army, and one person stood next to General Zhu who was placed in the spot. As a result, General Zhu exploded and he died."

"General Zhu's explosion? Is it the cause of bad manufacturing?" Zheng Yunming frowned.

"No, the battle situation was too fierce. The firearms repeatedly loaded a bamboo general, and the charge exceeded four or five kilograms. The bamboo general exploded because of excessive filling of the medicine."

Zheng Yunming nodded: "In the future, we will build a city wall and repair the horse-card battle shed first. Today, General Zhu's power is enough to prevent the enemy from approaching the city wall easily. The Mongols' bows and arrows are really powerful, so they need to arrange more horse-card defense."

"Most of the time we win by hand is still the power of firearms. The next time the enemy becomes familiar with General Zhu, there will be no only such casualties. I am not familiar with close combat. After I wait, I will develop a detailed way to fight on the city wall. Don't fight like a headless fly like today."

"The firearm hands are not proficient enough! In the future, more and more firearms will be used, and it will also affect the battlefield situation. If the operation is not good, it will become a disaster for our army." Zheng Yun said sternly: "No matter how hard you practice, you must practice the operation and release of the firearms until it is foolproof!"

All the generals all claimed that it was.

"Next, let's talk about what mistakes we made in this battle and what mistakes the enemy made."

After hearing this, no one dared to speak up easily. It is not a safe choice for any era or scenario.

Wang Deng said without caring: "I am frank, after the war, I thought about it carefully and felt that in this offensive and defensive battle, whether the attacking party or the defensive party, the commander is actually still amateur."

"Tell me in detail." Zheng Yunming pointed to the topographic map of Shatou City behind him.

"First of all, our opponent, King Tasi. He defeated the infantry formation controlled by Li before, and fought beautifully. However, after breaking the enemy outside the city, it was a mistake to make a defense around Shatou City. It is important to know that the opponent's entry and exit passage cannot be completely blocked, and the enemy may rush out from both sides at any time to harass the troops who are heading down the city."

"Maybe the enemy arranged this on purpose to catch our army and annihilate it in the field?"

"That doesn't explain why he did not attack on three sides while siegeing the city." Wang Deng pointed at the northern village wall of Shatou City. "When he climbed the city for the second time, the Tartars almost broke the city. The important reason for his failure was that the reinforcements from the west gate and the east gate of our army arrived in time and attacked the few black troops who climbed the city. If there was an army in each gate at this time, how could our army have such a calm opportunity to mobilize new forces from both sides to reinforce the northern village wall?"

"If you prepare more, you will be able to do it," Peng Man said: "Concentrating all your strength and attacking one corner is the best strategy for siege."

"Of course this is true when dealing with a big city, but facing a grassy village, there are only 3,000 defenders. As an army with absolute advantages, we should naturally adopt the tactic of full encirclement, because you have an advantage in every direction and can use the number to suppress your opponent."

Peng Man bowed to Zheng Yunming and asked, "What do you think the manager?"

Zheng Yunming lowered his head and pondered for a while, and said, "I think the Tartars are not really prepared to conquer this big village."

Ge Huai nodded and said, "If they take out their methods and resilience to attack the city in the north, even though there are three thousand Tulong troops guarding Shatou City, it is impossible for them to last ten days."

"The Tatars first invaded a country. They first pulled out important border passes, then went deep into the hinterland, killed people, robbed villages, and destroyed your farmland and markets, but did not easily attack the city. This was because of the old law of the Huns and Turks. But from the perspective of the grassland, using this trick to deal with settled people is very effective."

Zheng Yunming recalled the exciting battles between the Central Plains and Mobei in history, and his ideas gradually became clear in his mind: "Damn the countryside first, instead of attacking the city. Because he first entered the enemy's territory, the geography was not yet recognized and the equipment was not repaired. The opponent had enough food and soldiers, and it was certainly not easy to attack with the strong city."

"So first destroy the enemy's crops, abduct farmers, destroy fields and villages, and then fully understand the enemy's terrain, and then use the financial resources provided by these captives to make siege equipment, waiting for the opponent to have neither food source nor soldiers to conquer, and only one lonely city was left, and then it began to encircle on all sides and attack one corner of it with its might."

The situation was as Zheng Yunming said. This time, the Mongols went south in a large-scale manner, except for the twilight struggles to capture Zaoyang. After the passage was opened, there was neither a storm at the city of Xiangyang nor a deliberate attack. If they could surrender, they would surrender. If they could surrender, they would take a tentative attack. If they could break the city, they would occupy the city and sweep away the residents of the city. If they could not break the city, they would go around the city, and carry out sweeping massacres on the land of Jinghu Lake, destroying all farms, fields and houses.

This is bleeding and cutting off food for the defenders of Jinghu. Year after year, the economy of Jinghu will completely collapse in less than a few years, and the defenders will not be able to obtain enough reserves and supplements. The nine counties of Jingxiang will automatically fall into the Mongols like ripe fruits.

"These have not become reality yet," Zheng Yunming waved his hand and said, "There is still time. As long as everyone is united and can do what I say, the Mongolians' plans will not succeed so easily."

He raised his chin and signaled to Wang Deng: "You haven't mentioned my shortcomings yet."

"Your shortcomings are mainly three." Wang Deng said loudly: "First, both sides spoke vulgar and lacked etiquette when they called out."

"I won't mention this for now." Zheng Yunming said with a straight face: "It's hard for me to change it, let me tell you the key points."

Wang Deng smiled and immediately said in a serious tone: "When the enemy climbed the city wall, the Beiwei army did not mobilize the Beiwei army to block the door and reinforcements in time, resulting in the Black Army successfully climbing the city and almost occupying the city wall."

"Well," Zheng Yunming responded and said, "What else?"

"We did not achieve flexible configuration of troops. We said that we were defending from all sides, but we spread the troops from all sides," Wang Deng said: "It is not expensive to have one soldier. The opponent hits it with one punch, but we only use one little finger to fight. How can we win?"

"Although the other party only sent two or three thousand siege troops as a test, most of the time we were just fighting against the enemy with three or four hundred people. Zhu Sheng and Qin Wu were doing nothing for a long time, and Peng Man's 500 people had no chance to play from beginning to end! If it weren't for the Beiwei Army's initiative to reinforce and the spontaneous actions of the generals of each team, wouldn't we have three thousand people defended the city and were breached the city wall by two thousand people?"
Chapter completed!