Chapter 83 The first battle between the North and the South
Zhu Xiongying also wanted to get involved, but he couldn't understand many things.
If you act rashly, it's fine if you do it right, but if you do it wrong, it will directly affect the emperor's authority.
Zhu Xiongying settled for the next best thing. He has grasped the military power. As long as the military power is in hand, his safety will not be a problem. After the future is clear and learned, it will not be too late to take action. At this moment, Zhu Xiongying is dedicated to being He Xi's student.
And He Xi doesn't mind having one more student with this status.
As for changes in the court, He Xi was not willing to do so.
But there is no solution.
At this moment, He Xi must hurry up and complete the transformation of the center. Because He Xi had laid the foundation before, the Ming Dynasty actually already had a capitalist economic foundation. But how the Ming Dynasty system was transformed into a system that adapts to and supervises the development of capitalist economy, to be honest, He Xi has no idea.
Every country has its own national conditions. Even if there are templates for future generations, He Xi is still exploring them.
He Xi can only determine the big framework first, and adjust quickly if problems arise. What would have taken ten years, or even decades, can be accomplished in a few years. This was only possible when He Xi was in Beijing and had almost no resistance from the court.
He Xi spent all his energy in Nanjing and could not achieve 10% of what he is doing now.
As a result, there are too many changes and it looks a bit messy. There are many changes.
When Zhu Xiongying saw He Xi, although he tried hard to maintain his expression, he still showed a trace of panic.
He Xi said, "Is Your Majesty worried about Ye Chen?"
Zhu Xiongying said: "Is it your intention, uncle, for Ye Chen to go out to fight?"
He Xi said, "That's not what I meant. But can you take it as my meaning?"
Zhu Xiongying couldn't bear it anymore and said, "Uncle, what do you mean? Do you know that the opponent is Fu Youde? If we start a war in this situation, what will we do if we lose?"
He Xi said, "Your Majesty, you shouldn't have asked me this question just now."
Zhu Xiongying was stunned and said, "What do you mean?"
He Xi said: "You should ask this question when I use Ye Chen. No matter how strong a person's ability is, there are limits. He must use people. Wanting people to make the best use of them is a very profound knowledge. , I don’t know how others do it? But before I use this person, I must conduct a detailed investigation. Once I use him, I will be willing to bear all the consequences. That includes if he does something bad."
"But until he does no bad things, my support for him will not change at all."
"Just like now."
Zhu Xiongying said: "Are you just watching the defeat of the south? Didn't you say that we cannot be defeated?"
He Xi said: "But what can we do now? It's too late to do anything now. The more we do, the more mistakes we make. At this time, Ye Chen has already gone to war. If His Majesty ordered the army to return, have you ever thought that when the order arrives? When was it in the army, for example, when Fu Youde was launching an attack and couldn't retreat at all? Or when Ye Shen was taking advantage of the victory to pursue?"
"In short, anything your Majesty does now will not help the development of the war."
After hearing this, Zhu Xiongying said angrily: "Am I just going to resign myself to fate?"
He Xi said: "That's right. Just leave it to fate. The current situation is like a test paper. Your Majesty has already written the answers and sent them for review. It's time to get the results, and your Majesty starts to get anxious. It's better to say goodbye. god."
Zhu Xiongying's anger suddenly disappeared. He didn't know how to respond, so he said: "I want the Beijing camp to move south. The Privy Council envoy Qu Neng will lead all the cavalry in the Beijing camp into Tianjin."
He Xi said: "If Your Majesty really has this intention, I will naturally not stop you. But there is one thing I want to remind Your Majesty. I keep these cavalry in the capital as a fast mobile force, ready to support all parties at any time."
"Whether there is something happening in Liaodong, something happening in Monan, or something happening in Datong, this cavalry can arrive quickly. Now that we are moving to Tianjin, if something happens elsewhere, it will probably be too late."
Zhu Xiongying thought for a moment and said: "No matter what, the south is the most important right now. This battle will
I must win, I will not lose. "
He Xi said: "Okay."
He Xi actually believed in Ye Chen's talent, and even more so in Ye Chen's strength.
Most of the troops in Beijing are actually the original Ming army, and He Xi has not made much transformation. But only in Ye Chen's department, He Xi put in a lot of effort. Among other things, the literacy rate of Ye Chen's department far exceeded that of other departments.
Ye Chen's unit is the template for the new army created by He Xi.
He Xi has always felt that the higher the education level of an army, the higher its combat effectiveness.
If the army that He Xi put so much effort into was no match for the elite Ming army, He Xi would have to reflect on whether he had done anything wrong.
However, even if He Xi trusted Ye Chen, he still had to make complete preparations and send an army south to check for leaks and fill the gaps. It's also normal.
It's just that the situation is also what Xi said.
With nearly 100,000 cavalry heading south, all of Beijing's mobile forces were exhausted. Although Beijing still has troops. But don’t the city of Beijing and the surrounding industrial zones need troops to guard it?
They can no longer be mobilized.
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Ye Chen didn't know what He Xi was thinking. He had no chance to think much at this moment.
Ye Chen finally understood the gap between him and veterans like Fu Youde.
Fu Youde only had a small trick to make the battlefield fall into his rhythm.
Fu Youde has studied various tactics of the Northern Army.
He finally came to the conclusion that it was not cost-effective not to charge hard in the face of repeated fire cannon fire.
But if we line up and hedge, we can’t fight?
joke?
The Liao army never attacked the strong formations of the Northern Song army. Could it be that the Liao army could not defeat the Northern Song army.
If there are no opportunities, create opportunities. There is no fighter plane to create a fighter plane.
This is what a top-notch general does.
Fu Youde quickly thought of a way, which was to start fighting before the Northern Army could get into position. Many people think that the battlefield is more of a grand scene with countless soldiers fighting. The blood is boiling, but from the perspective of a real general, the most marching in the war is marching under the sun day after day.
It takes time to transition from a marching state to an arrayed state.
In modern terms, that means Fu Youde is pursuing a mobile war.
Ye Chen was not defenseless.
Ye Chen was very cautious. Although he sent out a large number of troops, he even sent out his cavalry to fight the Southern Army's cavalry. Several thousand-man cavalry battles broke out. Overall, there is no winner.
After all, the training level of all Ming army cavalry is about the same.
The war horses are also similar. The equipment is also similar. It's normal for them to fight each other like this.
Ye Chen cautiously approached Fu Youde's department, and was also worried that Fu Youde would make a sudden attack. Every day, Ye Chen becomes obsessed with seeking a head-on confrontation with Fu Youde. However, Fu Youde ignored him at all.
The two armies were like a dancing man and woman in the area east of the canal.
One seeks contact and the other wants to get away, but once the distance is drawn away, the one who got away will come back.
This kind of contact, testing, and separation made Ye Chen very stressed.
After all, facing Fu Youde, how could Ye Chen not be nervous. But even if Ye Shen prepared again, Fu Youde still caught the flaw.
Just a few miles after Ye Chen left the camp in the morning, he encountered Fu Youde's violent attack.
Even at this time, Ye Chen didn't know that the information he got showed that Fu Youde was thirty miles away, so how could he be outside the camp overnight. Was it because the intelligence below was wrong, or was Fu Youde playing some trick? In other words, Fu Youde suddenly appeared outside Ye Chen's department overnight.
In short, a war has to break out.
The current situation is very bad for Ye Chen.
The army had just left the camp and it was already too late to go back to the camp. At this time, the entire army was still
In a relaxed situation. Reorganization will take time. Now it's too late.
Although there are always many emergency team formations during training, the time required for training and the time required for battle are completely different. Being able to bring 30% of your training results into play in battle is already very impressive.
Fu Youde would not let this opportunity pass by.
