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Chapter 1193 Learning
There was a lot of thunder and little rain, and the sound of trampling horseshoes and the terrible whistle went from far to near, and then disappeared into the night from near to far.

On the other hand, on the other side of the relatively quiet camp, people threw many igniting clay pots and a kind of iron ball that the Ming army used well to explode through the wooden fence. Almost no one was injured, but two soldiers were burned during the fire fighting. That's all.

But it was not in vain, because the attention of the sentries was all on the ruined side of the camp, and the sound of horseshoes sounded from that side, and when the fire started, there were not enough people to put out the fire, and twenty large tents were burned and burned. Letting soldiers sleep in the open caused a lot of trouble for Billund.

The army account is related to the formation of the troops. The enemy currently has no energy to take into account whether the soldiers sleep crowded, whether they get enough rest and have a good mental state, but the officer must know where his soldiers sleep. The result of the army account being burned is an independent infantry The establishment of 400 people in the squadron was cancelled, and they were mixed into another brigade. The already crowded military tents were immediately too tense to fit people in.

Such an arrangement actually made it more troublesome for the direct captains, because the soldiers were not the navy.

On the surface, whether an army soldier is a navy has little to do with this matter, but in fact it has a lot to do with it. These days, the navy is a technical branch, and the adventurers who dare to go to sea are the best in the technical branch. Some are educated, others are street-smart from town hoodlums.

The army is far behind. Although the composition of the soldiers has tiny small producers and handicraftsmen responding to the king's call, most of them are still farmers without any wisdom.

Farmers who have just come out of the Dark Middle Ages really don't have any wisdom at all. They probably followed the priest to burn witches in the village the day before, and today they were recruited by the lord to join the infantry regiment to fight.

The infantry regiment formed by these soldiers requires noble officers to hold batons to measure the distance between each person and calculate the number of people in the square formation; Where veterans and recruits of various arms should stand, all calculations and arrangements must be made before they go to the battlefield before they can go to the battlefield.

In the Ming Dynasty, which was composed of the earliest humans who popularized printing, find the most sloppy lazy general. He may tell the subordinate officers and soldiers that they should stand about the same. Regardless of whether the three-man formation, the small flag formation, the hundred-household formation, the thousand-household formation, or the marching formation are all fun, let them take two steps, and maybe several troops will connect with each other to form an overlapping formation and move forward.

but here?Impossible, you let them stand up roughly, stand up in a mess and then come back, maybe a third is standing, a third is lying down, and a third is missing, because they have already fought against themselves .

The subjective initiative of European soldiers to fight in the army is much lower than that in Greater China. Liu, who was so hungry that he hid in the big bell in the temple and planned to hang himself when the tribute was eaten up, seemed to be blessed by the Buddha. More than fifty, at the end of the war, the official worshiped General Wulue and Deputy Qianhu.

A European farmer was blessed by a miracle. He preached it all the way. He collected armor, horses, swords, flags and entourage with donations raised by others. He liberated Orleans and fought with Patty. No one dared to step forward. The gun charge broke the deadlock, what happened in the end?After being humiliated, he was tied to the stake and burned, burned to ashes once, burned again to prevent anyone from collecting ashes, and finally the remaining ashes were poured into the Seine River.

Her name is Joan of Arc, and she is still a saint.

As for the peasants, let's go to sleep and hope to be promoted in the war?This is even less likely than the possibility that the Ministry of Military Affairs of the Ming Dynasty calculated the first-level meritorious service of the Ministry of Military Affairs to clear officials more than it actually won.

It would be better to go to the wilderness to look for witches, how good it is to find witches, maybe you can be appreciated by monks, and be a housekeeper in a monastery or something.

Take any peasant woman and tell her she's a witch and she's a witch.

The method of verification is simple and rude. You carry a scale on your back and put a Bible that no one can understand on it. As long as the peasant woman is heavier than the Bible, she must be a witch; If it is thrown into the river, if it can float, it must be a witch.

As far as the wisdom of the people is concerned, a small captain in the phalanx is dozens of times more important than a hundred households in the Ming army.

Why has mathematics made great progress in this era?It has nothing to do with the ancient Roman engineers dug out of the oil-paper bag. They are all forced by the world and pushed forward by demand.

The change in the number of each team made them have to recalculate the army formation, but Billon had no choice. Billon may not be the only French general who has a clear understanding of the strength of the Ming army, but he is definitely the one who knows the most. He knows this battle To face an opponent who is superior to the previous enemy in all aspects, all arrangements must not be sloppy, and no matter how careful you are, you cannot be too careful.

He even suspected that the Ming army had spies in his camp. After the second night attack, he clearly changed the main defense focus of the troops, but the Ming army still came from a weak point; after the third attack, the troops were allowed to rest on the surface, but Nearly half of the soldiers were still sitting in small groups in the camp covered by wooden fences to warm up. As a result, the Ming army stopped attacking and set fire from behind.

All night long, his troops would have to be on guard against an attack. Billon guessed that this might be the purpose of the Ming army—to make his troops tired.

He had already sent men to swim across the river to inform Matthion of the news, so that the soldiers on the west bank of the Crane would retreat a little longer and starve for another day.

This feeling is extremely uncomfortable, as if the omniscient and omnipotent God is on the side of the heathen.

The combat experience is completely different on the Baishan Battalion General Kang Guru.

The plate-armored iron pagoda left by Kang Gulu's men in the wild was actually only about [-] riders left, and the others were sent back to sleep. It was pitch black, and only when looking down at the French camp from a high position could one see the countless bonfires illuminating the entire camp.

The distance between him and Billund is actually not far, four miles at most, because the observation point chosen by Kanggulu is only three hundred steps away from the easternmost barracks of the French camp. If any of his soldiers utters a scream, Can be heard by the sentry on the opposite side.

But no one could find them. There were no streets, no street lamps, no city lights, and the wilderness was devoid of light except for the moonlight. The French army under the torches could not see anything ten steps away from the camp gate; The situation was a little better. Most of the Baishan battalion generals had their eyes used to the dark night, but they could see a few steps further than the other side, but the enemy camp under the torch was clearly visible in the binoculars.

He and the Jurchen generals under his command have one thing in common, they have not received formal training, but Billund is a good friend, giving them the opportunity to learn warfare in the war.

Several officers from the Plate Armored Iron Stupa surrounded Kanggulu, observed each of them with binoculars for a while, pointed at the various layouts in the camp, and discussed the pros and cons of different harassment tactics—if it was daytime, they would Under the iron hooves of French knights, people can't even squeeze their teeth, but it's night.

They will definitely not be able to participate in tomorrow's battle, but the night before dawn will be the time for them to show their talents.

They will play the enemy hard this night.

(End of this chapter)