Datang: From exiled prince to eternal tyrant

Chapter 30: The position of prime minister only adds to the laughter

"A cavalry with a long snake array?"

Li Shimin frowned, and his expression changed drastically in the next second.

The cavalry of this era is originally a clutch soldier, and it doesn't matter if it is released.

Moreover, it was a small team operation. Even if cavalrymen fought with each other, they would stagger their horses' heads to hedge, and then use weapons to deal with each other.

And the cavalry of the Shu army, who are full of men, horses and heavy armor, obviously don't play the routine of the soldiers of separation and reunion with you.

They formed a dense formation of men and horses with heavy armor, so there was no such thing as staggering the heads of the horses to fight with martial arts, but forcing the enemy to either rush up and collide with each other, or escape.

In this kind of collision, whoever has the best weapon will take advantage of it.

If the light armored cavalry of this era resists such heavy cavalry, it must be delivering food.

What's more, if the war horse sees such a dense crowd on the opposite side, it will definitely not be willing to hedge and will definitely slow down.

That's all over.

Not to mention the upper infantry, even if there is no one on the horseback, such a dense herd of tens of thousands of horses rushing towards him, even the Xuanjia Army may not be able to stabilize it.

Not to mention the Guanling Army, which is a private army.

And once it hits, the consequences will be even more tragic.

The horse hit the gun and stabbed the horse's hoof, and it is estimated that the whole body could not be found.

"Then what happened to grandson Wuji?"

Li Shimin finally started to worry about someone else this time.

"His Royal Highness the King of Shu personally led the cavalry into the camp of the Chinese army. The eldest grandson disguised himself, cut off his beard, and changed into the armor of the guards."

"Then the guard wearing his clothes was killed by His Royal Highness the King of Shu."

"He escaped successfully, but General Chai Shao was captured alive by His Highness."

The leader of the dark guard said.

"Well, this is indeed the best outcome."

After Li Shimin heard the words, he was a little dumbfounded at first.

Chai Shao is also a veteran, and was the husband-in-law of his aunt Li Xiuning back then.

Unfortunately, too old.

In his eyes, Chai Shao was captured alive by Li Ke because he was exhausted.

"In a battle formation like theirs, the spears must not be unsealed, right?"

Li Shimin studied it and found it very interesting, so he asked subconsciously.

"Yes, Your Majesty, their guns are not pointed, but round iron balls, coupled with the unique white wax rods of Sichuan and Shu, they can only bend continuously, and they can always break through the defense line of the closed army."

"There are 1 such heavy cavalry, and they are not cavalry, but ordinary farmers who can ride horses."

"Their training is just to practice dense formation, knees on each other's knees, with a layer of parchment in between. No matter how the formation changes, the parchment cannot fall."

"The humble job has never seen them practice fighting skills."

"As for the [-] light cavalry, they were recruited from the county soldiers and retired soldiers from various counties, and they were all able to fight on horseback."

The leader of the dark guards told all he knew without hiding anything.

"This kind of heavy cavalry, where do you need any fighting skills? It's enough to hit them all the way."

"Interesting, it seems that I have to train a cavalry like this."

Li Shimin said with a look of consideration on his face.

"Your Majesty, a lowly position is not considered a soldier, but I also know that such cavalry can only fight head-on."

"Spend a lot of money to form such a heavy cavalry, I'm afraid..."

The leader of the dark guard spoke to him.

"Hehe, didn't you see that Ke'er still has [-] light cavalry?"

"The eight thousand light cavalry were used to resist the attacks from the two wings."

"As long as the heavy cavalry knocks over the enemy in the front and kills the enemy's infantry."

"Then the enemy cavalry can only flee."

"This guy, whether it's the spear formation or the cavalry, is invincible from the front."

Since Li Shimin can see the key to heavy cavalry, he can naturally see the benefits of the Macedonian phalanx plus the unique combination of guns and shields.

As long as the enemy is in the front, it can attack and defend.

If the enemy is coming from all directions, then the hollow phalanx faces the enemy in all directions, and then goes all the way, the enemy army will be defeated.

Even Li Ke even thought of the shortcomings of the Macedonian phalanx that could only be on the plains and poor maneuverability, and prepared a light infantry.

Looking at the composition of the light infantry, Li Shimin knew that the night attack must be such a short and capable team.

This kind of team is destined to take advantage of night battles or melee battles such as mountain battles and city wall battles.

"I don't understand my position, and I'm talking nonsense. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."

The leader of the dark guard said with a resigned look on his face.

Li Shimin didn't speak, and after waving his hand to let the leader of the hidden guards leave, he continued to admire the map.

It was an achievement given to him by his youngest son who deserved the most. It proved to him that the latter had the ability to save his own life, and it also proved that the latter said before that he would use the land of Yizhou to expand the territory of the Tang Dynasty. The promise can be fulfilled.

"After beating Changsun Wuji, I hope you will face foreign enemies well next time."

"As long as the Guanlong Group, how can I allow them to do it a second time?"

After muttering to himself, he smiled with satisfaction.

This result is indeed the final result for him.

……

After the next day, all the officials of the Guanlong Group were summoned by Gao Shilian to the latter's own residence.

Then, the latter made a big announcement.

"We closed our army and lost..."

Gao Shilian said with a constipated look on his face.

"hiss……"

A sound of gasping for air resounded throughout the hall.

All the officials of the Guanlong Group looked at each other, and they all saw each other's unbelievable eyes.

"This……"

"how is this possible!?"

"How could the Guanyuan army lose to a group of refugees?"

"And it's still under the circumstances that the prime minister personally leads the troops?"

They were as shocked by the news as they were when they saw a whale emerge from the fish pond in their back garden.

"A small setback, I will continue to assist the prime minister to reorganize the army."

A Guanlong official said indifferently.

"Yeah, it must be a small setback."

"It must be something wrong with the military rations?"

"The logistics supply can't be supplied, so the troops are withdrawn, right?"

"That's right, the terrain over there is so complicated, it's really troublesome to supply the [-] troops."

Everyone present obviously only believed that Changsun Wuji had only suffered a small setback, and definitely not a big one.

"Twenty thousand were killed in battle, thirty thousand were captured, and half of the one hundred thousand troops went."

"Chai Shao was captured, and the Prime Minister escaped by chance."

Gao Shilian's voice instantly petrified everyone.

"In addition, Li Ke, as the victor, has already played it publicly, but it has not yet been passed on to His Majesty."

"Wait, see for yourself!"

After Gao Shilian finished speaking, he took out a memorial with a gloomy face and handed it to them for circulation.

Everyone fixed their eyes and saw that Li Ke's memorial had only a few words, which can be summed up in one sentence.

"Since there are three provinces and six ministries, it's useless to keep the position of prime minister, and it will only increase the jokes. Let's withdraw."

Everyone took a deep breath after watching it.

Li Ke, I want to write a letter to dismiss Changsun Wuji's aspect!
(End of this chapter)