Xinshun 1730

Chapter 42 Useful Bullshit

After making sure that Bering was not returning to the voyage, but had just come from Siberia, Liu Yu was completely overjoyed.

It was a surprise.

Bering must have a map of Siberia in his hand, and the level of Bering's drawing is definitely higher than the group of people under him.Don't even know where it went.

Since someone else has it, after snatching it, isn't it your own?
After figuring this out, the topic at the dinner table became much easier.

Liu Yu no longer asked questions that might arouse suspicion, but complained about Dashun wantonly.It is too narrow to say that Dashun is too narrow, the emperor is a Confucianist, and neither Protestant nor oldist like him can be an official...

Hannibal was very happy to hear the words. He felt that this was the first time he had heard about religious conflicts in Dashun since he came here.

The meal is almost done, and both parties think that they have got what they want, and they are in a particularly good mood.

After sending Liu Yu out of the castle, Hannibal came to two conclusions.

One: There are serious religious conflicts in Dashun. When they go south in the future, those believers in Dashun can use them, at least they can use their dissatisfaction.

Two: The smugglers in Dashun hope that the Russian fortress can be further south, so that smuggling will be very convenient.Once a war breaks out, these smugglers can help deliver intelligence and news.

Liu Yu, who left the castle, also came to several conclusions.

One: The castle is well built. Hannibal does have plans to expand the castle after the spring of next year. The castle where more than 500 soldiers were stationed, he wanted to make meritorious deeds to capture this guy, and the storming was purely a dream, so he had to think of other ways.

Two: Since Bering came here and brought a Japanese with him, it is very likely that he will sail into the sea after Heilongjiang melts.

Three: Cossacks are too undisciplined and bandit-like, which is a feature that can be used.Sun Tzu said: profit lures it, chaos leads to taking it.Just as it was prepared for such a bandit-like enemy army.

Four: The supply of the Russians is very problematic. The highest officer and brigadier general of the garrison are very happy when they eat rye bread.While the maid was clearing the table, she secretly hid the leftover bread in her skirt.

With these probing conclusions, he returned to the trade area where the transaction was completed.

Jiaolao Butu, Du Feng and others were all relieved. Jiaolao Butu came out with Liu Yu, and if something happened to Liu Yu, he couldn't take responsibility; However, if he was detained by the Raksha people, his life would be over.

"How can you get tiger cubs if you don't enter the tiger's den? My lord will get a lot from breaking into the tiger's den this time. Your Majesty will definitely appreciate it."

Jiaolaobutu patted a sentence, and Liu Yu smiled and said: "Since there is a job, it is a matter of duty. Even if there is merit in the matter of duty, how much do you think this function is? It is a fly in the ointment."

It seems to be unintentional, but it is actually testing Jiaolaobutu, whether he wants to make a big deal.

Jiaolaobutu smacked it a little, and tasted it, then looked at Liu Yu, and found that he was staring at the chaotic Cossacks in the distance and the boat behind the pier.

Following Liu Yu's eyes, Jiaolao Butu didn't know why, but he believed that Liu Yu must be planning to make a big deal.

If it were someone else, they might not dare to do it.But thinking about Liu Yu's family background, Jiaolaobutu thought to himself, I like meritorious service.The sky is falling, and there is a tall one holding it up, and if it hits, it will hit you first.If you dare to do it, I dare to follow suit.

"What your lord said is very true. Even if you have meritorious service, it is just a matter of your duty. My lord said that day, the matter of your duty comes first. If you have finished your duty, you can naturally do some extra work." What is within and what is outside is beyond my knowledge. Everything is at the discretion of the adults."

Liu Yu withdrew his gaze, smiled at Jiaolao Butu, and said nothing more.

Jiaolaobutu thought to himself, I don't have such a hard relationship with you in the team, and I don't know the scale of this matter.

Once you've done it, the main credit lies with you, and I'll share some soup with you; then, of course, you should take the big responsibility and I'll take the small one.

I'm willing to make extra contributions, but I don't want to give orders. You have to bear the responsibility.But if you are willing to bear it, I will definitely dare to do it.

Liu Yu understood what Jiaolaobutu meant, and didn't think there was any problem.All I want is a "dare to follow suit" attitude.

He led the caravan out of the Raksha people's castle-controlled area, circled a few times and returned to the place where the other half of them camped.

After a day's rest, Liu Yu called all the "cultural people" in the team who were literate, responsible for drawing, and who knew investigative skills.Jean Jiaolaobutu and other officers also came to watch.

I made a sand table with snow on the ground, roughly made the appearance of a Rakshasa castle, and used wooden sticks to simulate cannons and soldiers.

After a while they will act separately, which requires those responsible for mapping and investigation to understand, what exactly is to be investigated?What is useful information and what is important.

In addition, it is time to choose a smart one, report a letter back, and send a memorial.

These people looked at the castle model on the snow, but they all had difficulties.

Some of them have studied Western learning and even been baptized, but they have never learned how to lead soldiers to fight and know nothing about it.

Many people's understanding of leading troops to fight is still in the realm of "opening the kit, shouting, and ambush with the sound of cannons".

How to attack, this is the secret of the generals and nobles.Even if you want to make meritorious service, you will be powerless. It doesn't make sense to write nonsense indiscriminately, so it's better not to write.

How to attack the castle?Surround the past, the first climber will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver, and under the heavy reward, there must be a brave man?

Liu Yu also knew the level of everyone, so he didn't talk about how to attack the city first, but how to defend the city first.In other words, it talked about the defense system of the bastion and why the bastion replaced the high city and the big wall.

Although these people can be officials, they are actually smart people, and they were all killed out of the single-plank bridge among tens of thousands of people.Qi Guogong is qualified to say that Bai Yunhang, the county magistrate of Fuqing County, is an official with sesame seeds and green beans, and Qi Jiguang is a hereditary fourth-rank official, what kind of honor is he, etc., but ordinary people cannot say.

What Liu Yu said was somewhat logical. After explaining it roughly, everyone, including Jiaolaobutu and others, was in a cold sweat.

This bastion... is so difficult to attack?
Jiaolaobutu, Du Feng and other soldiers who came from the families of the military officers could understand the meaning of how many troops can be deployed in the front from the beginning, and those people didn't even understand this.

But even if Jiaolaobutu and the others understood, they still didn't understand what was going on with the defense system of the bastion.

Hearing Liu Yu's explanation clearly, he was secretly startled.I thought to myself that if there are five or six hundred soldiers stationed in such a bastion, wouldn't it be possible to surround it several times?Otherwise, if you attack recklessly, even if you have the courage, you will be killed for a day or two, and your courage will all become urine.

At the end of the Hundred Years' War in 1449, the siege of Evreux was destroyed in 1645 days under bombardment; in [-], the heavy artillery bombarded Jiangyin and fell. The classical city defense system of Fang Leng's weapon era is coming to an end.

What Liu Yu said scared everyone into a cold sweat, but there was no exaggeration in the slightest.

With the popularity of muskets, the projected firepower has increased, and it is supported by geometry. They are shot on three sides, and there are not enough people for a storm. Even 1 people can only line up in hundreds of hundreds to send their heads.

If you use bombardment, the thick base wall will not be effective for three to five days.

Digging a tunnel for bombing, the bombing collapsed or a thick slope, still useless.

Even if Vauban's siege method is at its peak at this time, a zigzag trench can be dug close to the moat, and the defenders can continue to kill at the parapet next to the trench. With the cover of the main castle behind, it is still difficult to break through.

Being so close, the attacking side’s artillery can’t cover it, because it will hurt its own people; the attacking side’s muskets can’t cover it, because the defender squats behind the parapet; , but also to face the shooting on the main castle.

Generally speaking, if you can reach the moat, you must send grenadiers to it.

Throwing a grenade can bypass the parapet, but the problem is that Dashun doesn't have a dedicated grenadier, and I haven't even heard of such a unit.

Even if Dashun has cannons, and there are quite a lot of them, it is still a skill to blast the bastions.

A "one" should be blasted along the bottom of the city wall first, and then two vertical lines should be blasted, so that the crater should appear as a "凵" character.

Then let a special artillery officer or engineer judge where the weak point of the word "凵" is, and bombard that point until the bastion wall collapses... Dashun probably does not have a special artillery officer who understands this and engineers.

Around the attack and defense of bastions, siege and defense have become a science.Just like the Mohists who were the most able to defend the city in the Warring States Period, they relied not on the art of war but on advanced technology and mathematics.

Although the castle in front of me is simple and crude, the Russians have been stationed here for decades and are constantly repairing it.It seems crude, but with the defense system of the bastion, it is difficult to attack.

If you want to capture it, except for a long siege, you can only follow Vauban's set of civil excavation tactics.

After talking dryly all day, most people still half understand.

But there are also a few people who understand it roughly.After asking about it, and asking those who understood who knew the most, Liu Yu asked everyone to disperse.

Back in the camp, Liu Yu took out a pen and paper, and wrote his first memorial very carefully.

In addition to introducing what I saw along the way, I also used this Raksha Castle as a template to introduce in detail Vauban's siege method, the principle of zigzag trench excavation, the use of artillery, and the grenadiers necessary for siege. Formation and so on.

Without Tian Ping as his partner by his side, his writing style is extremely poor, the whole article is full of vernacular, he also drew six or seven pictures, and wrote about a few thousand words.

After sealing the memorial, find the person who understands the most, and tell him to return to the capital with the three riders first, and take this memorial back.If His Majesty asks, let the person who understands the most set up a sand table.

Watching these people leave, Liu Yu also heaved a sigh of relief.

I have completed the first step of being a "Tian Feng" in a certain sense, and the protagonist refuses to accept the faithful advice, and finally hits his head and bleeds.As for whether the lord is Yuan Shao, it seems that he is not.

The things I write are all useful bullshit.

Very useful, the emperor must have praised him after reading it, and recognized that he was not Zhao Kuo Ma Su but had a real talent.

But it was all nonsense, because Liu Yu knew that the court could not use this method.

The time for soil work in the Heilongjiang River Basin is very short. The ice melts in May and the snow falls in August. Soil work can only be carried out in a short period of three to four months.

In order to contain Tsarist Russia, suppress the rebellion in the Northwest, and let the Khalkha Mongols stand correctly, the imperial court will definitely seek speed and fierceness.

The logistical pressure in such a ghost place is huge, and the chaos in the northwest is unclear, so it is impossible to spend a few years here with Rakshasa.

Vauban's siege method requires the cooperation of huge artillery, specialized engineers, and the most ferocious grenadiers in hand-to-hand combat to break through the final parapet.Without these great successes, the efficiency will be greatly reduced.

Surrounding a city with several times more troops, according to Liu Yu's "tactically correct, strategically bullshit" method, would take at least a month.

Along the Heilongjiang River, there are still quite a few castles. They all do this. How many can be captured when it snows in August?

When winter comes, it is more difficult to supply, and it is even more difficult to maintain the army.The longer it drags on, the more likely it is that Rakshasa will increase its troops, the loyalty of the Khalkha tribes to Dashun will be more suspicious, and the chances of a good relationship with Rakshasa will be higher in the northwest.

Tactically, civil engineering work should be carried out slowly to reduce casualties. This is the right way. The army can continue to fight without too much damage to morale.

Strategically, it must be fast, extremely fast, storming at any cost, and capture as many castles as possible within a year, so as to quickly negotiate peace at any cost.

This is what Liu Yu calls "useful bullshit".Effective, but not usable, at least not in this one.

Many people died in this battle, and the imperial court may choose to try to reform. Those who died on the storming of the castle are the so-called price of change.

There are too many people who simply die, and it may not necessarily change.

But more people died, and some people proposed ways to reduce the number of deaths before they died, so it is possible to change.

At the end of the memorial, Liu Yu deliberately added a sentence of "seeking to fight": the current situation, it is better not to talk about it, time is up to me, and continue to immigrate to enrich Liaodong.First, in accordance with Western military law, drill artillery and train grenadiers.Wait for three to five years to form an army, and then fight over.If you don't do what he said, the death and injury will be heavy.

(End of this chapter)