Datang: What's wrong with my fief being a billion points larger?

In the main hall of Hua City, Li Yuanji sat at the top, and Xie Shufang and others sat below.

“Your Majesty, during this siege, two of our soldiers were killed, three were seriously injured, and twenty-one were slightly injured.

All the casualties came from the fact that when we were attacking the city, a small group of enemy troops put up a firm resistance and engaged in street fighting, and we were shot by enemy arrows.

The entire city is now under the control of our army, and no enemy soldier has escaped.

In this battle, more than 47,000 enemy soldiers were captured, the king of Magadha was killed by cannon fire, and only three members of the royal family survived.

Listening to Xie Shufang's narration of the battle report, Li Yuanji frowned.

“You all seem very happy, but I am very disappointed. Why am I disappointed? Because despite such an obvious gap in equipment, our army still had two people killed and three seriously injured. This is shameful!

It is not only a shame, but also a reflection of your incompetence. Is this how you lead an army? "

Li Yuanji watched as several people stopped smiling and became serious, and continued to speak in a solemn voice.

"A small group of enemy troops resisted resolutely and engaged in street fighting, which resulted in this number of casualties. If all the enemy troops resisted stubbornly and engaged in street fighting with us, would our casualties be dozens, hundreds, or even thousands?
The casualties that have occurred now fully demonstrate that your understanding of street fighting is still insufficient, that you still have great shortcomings in handling the issue of street fighting, and that the coordination between the Shenwu Army and other soldiers is still flawed.

Now that we have advanced firearms, except for large-scale cavalry, no enemy forces can pose a threat to us, whether in field battles or sieges.

Let’s not talk about the threat of cavalry for now, but street fighting must be resolved. We will inevitably encounter more street fighting in the future. If this problem is not resolved, the casualties of the army will remain high.

Xie Shufang, Feng Li, you have already fought street battles with the enemy before, but now you still don't take it seriously?"

Xie Shufang and others had solemn expressions. When they heard Li Yuanji's name being called, Xie Shufang and Feng Li immediately stood up and knelt on one knee.

"I have made a mistake, please punish me, my king."

The two men did not make any excuses. They had indeed not thought about this issue seriously before. They believed that street fighting was just an accident and not everyone would resist so resolutely.

Especially with such advantageous equipment, no one has thought about this problem.

"Punish? What? Do you think that I dare not punish you? Are you just going to let me punish you?

I tell you, if you have this attitude, I will dismiss you from your posts now, and let you charge down as ordinary soldiers for me, and experience the difficulties of being a soldier in street fighting. "

Li Yuanji looked at the two of them, and even with Xie Shufang, Li Yuanji did not tolerate him at all.

Li Yuanji knew very well that they were now attacking the Jie Ri Dynasty and other countries. He could not predict whether the resistance would be resolute or not, but once he fought with Li Er later, street fighting would probably occur frequently given their advanced firearms.

Now they are fighting against the Harsha Dynasty. To put it bluntly, they can use the Harsha Dynasty's army to hone their army's flexible use of rifles, cannons, rockets, grenades and other firearms, as well as the mutual coordination between various branches of the military.

More importantly, when street fighting breaks out, it will allow everyone to quickly accumulate experience in street fighting.

After the siege, no matter how advanced the equipment is, street fighting is an unavoidable obstacle, unless the entire city is reduced to ashes, but even so, street fighting may still take place in the ruins.

There were fewer street fightings in the past, but that does not mean there were none. Moreover, there are obvious differences between street fighting with cold weapons and street fighting with hot weapons.

Now is the time for him and the entire army to learn from experience, but no one like Xie Shufang cares, which is why Li Yuanji is very angry.

At this time, even Xue Wanche, who was sitting, could not sit down anymore and knelt on one knee on the ground.

"My lord, I admit my mistake. I will be more careful in the future and improve my street fighting skills!"

No one said anything else, especially Xie Shufang and Feng Li. They still remembered the street fighting in Rajgir clearly, and the casualties caused by the street fighting were indeed heavy.

This time, everything went too smoothly for the attack, and they didn't care at all about the cost of two deaths and three serious injuries. In their eyes, winning a great victory with such casualties was the same as having no casualties at all.

Before the advent of hot weapons, every war would result in casualties, and a lot of casualties. Now only two people were killed and three were seriously injured. Deep down in their hearts, they just felt that this was a good deal and didn't think too much about it.

This was also a bad habit brought by their previous experience of marching and fighting, because they were really used to the death of people in a big war. Now that two people died in the battle, how could they be upset? Why would they think so much?

On the contrary, they were very accepting of such results. In their eyes, it was no different from zero casualties.

As for whether Li Yuanji was making a fuss out of nothing, they had no idea. They could now realize that the street fighting proposed by Li Yuanji was their negligence, and they indeed did not have much experience in street fighting as it had rarely happened before.

Especially Xie Shufang, he knew very well that the problem that Li Yuanji pointed out must be very serious, and this problem had been fully explained in the past.

Li Yuanji was relieved when he saw that several people realized their mistakes. What he was afraid of was that these people would become too arrogant and think that street fighting was just a small problem.

In previous cold weapon combats, street fighting was indeed a minor problem because it rarely occurred, but Li Yuanji was very clear that the frequency of street fighting would probably be very high in the future.

"After you go down, write a report on this battle, that is, a summary of this battle, how to fight street battles, how to cooperate with each other, and you also have to write a report and hand it in to me. This is the task."

When they heard this, all of them looked miserable. As generals who led troops into battle, they were now asked to write down their thoughts. None of them were willing to do so, but they had no choice but to agree in the end.

"The last general takes orders."

Afterwards, Li Yuanji drove the few people out and laughed. But after laughing, he felt melancholy again. He couldn't let them think about the street fighting. He also had to think about how to conduct the street fighting.

In the next two days, Li Yuanji sorted out how to fight street fighting and what to pay attention to, and wrote them down on paper.

Xie Shufang and his companions also thought about it for two days and nights, and tortured themselves for two days and nights. They wrote down their thoughts one after another, and on the third day they all came to Li Yuanji.

"Your Majesty, I have written down my thoughts."

Like students, the three generals handed their written thoughts on the table in front of Li Yuanji, and then waited for Li Yuanji to review them.

Li Yuanji looked at the three people waiting obediently, smiled immediately, picked up their experiences and began to read them.

Nearly half an hour had passed when Li Yuanji finished reading everything. He rubbed his forehead and looked at the few people.

“You all wrote very well, and it seems that you really put your heart into it, which is very good.

In fact, once street fighting breaks out, casualties among the army are inevitable. We must be mentally prepared for this. Don't think that by improving our street fighting capabilities now, there will be no casualties among the army.

In addition, street fighting usually only occurs when the enemy is very elite. Generally speaking, the main casualties of the army are in the attack and defense of the city. In general, when the city is broken, the army is shaken and the morale is low, the possibility of street fighting is very low. I asked you to write this just in case. Although street fighting does not happen often, it is very likely to happen in the future.

When the enemy knows our equipment advantage, they will most likely resort to street fighting to defend the city. In this way, because they are concerned about the civilians, our artillery advantage will actually be offset.

This may be very serious especially later when you fight against Li Er's army and attack the city. That is why I asked you to find ways to improve your street fighting ability.

Now that you all have taken it seriously, you must be extra careful in future battles, especially here. If you encounter street fighting again, it will be a good opportunity to hone your skills.

Besides, I have also prepared a list of things to pay attention to in street fighting. Take it and study it carefully.

I will give you five days. During these five days, you must not only think it through, but also conduct appropriate drills in the military.

In five days, we will begin the next phase of operations without delay."

In the past, there were few street fightings because the army was mainly focused on attacking and defending the city walls. Usually, when a city was captured, the enemy would almost lose their courage and would only flee, and would not engage in street fighting at all.

The armies of this era were not truly capable of fighting to the death. Generally, the armies would collapse when they suffered too many casualties.

Unless it is an elite army, it can withstand a fierce battle and will not collapse.

In the Tang Dynasty, for example, in the Battle of Xiangji Temple, both sides were composed of absolutely elite armies. Even though the army suffered heavy casualties and fought continuously at a high intensity, the elite army did not collapse.

Street fighting is almost always more effective in large cities. In small cities, there are only a few houses and the city is not very large, so there is no room for maneuver. The interior of the city is not complicated either, and it cannot provide convenience for street fighting.

Only a large city with a complex interior and numerous buildings can provide a lot of natural cover and room for maneuver, dilute the attacking army, gradually resist, and create natural conditions for street fighting.

Xie Shufang and his companions took the outline of street fighting written by Li Yuanji and immediately withdrew. They really wanted to take a good look at what Li Yuanji said about how to fight a street fight.

In fact, many of what Li Yuanji wrote had already been written by Xie Shufang and others. Li Yuanji had to say that one should not underestimate those who have left their names in an era. They all have good abilities. They were just not taken seriously in the past, but it does not mean that these people really have no ability to cope with it.

Five days passed quickly and Li Yuanji called everyone again.

"According to the information sent by the scouts, the coalition forces of more than 300,000 people composed of more than ten countries have been found out to have 380,000 people.

There is still more than a month to go before reaching Patraya. The ambush can’t wait any longer and we have to act now.

This time, we will be divided into two battlefields. In addition to ambushing this coalition force, we will also attack Varanasi at the same time."

The people below were excited when they heard this. They were not afraid of war, but they were afraid of not having a war to fight. Now they were going to start fighting at the same time, which meant that all of them had a war to fight.

"My lord, just make the arrangements. I and my men will fight to the death!"

Fighting to the death is a bit exaggerated. If their equipment is so advanced that it is enough to fight to the death, then these coalition forces and the Japanese anti-Japanese forces are too powerful.

The others also began to volunteer to fight and expressed their determination.

Seeing this, Li Yuanji waved his hand to signal for silence.

"I have seen your eagerness to fight. Now I will announce the battle plan."

“Yuwen Bao, you lead the fleet to the waters of the Varanasi River, just like attacking Huashi City. When Wei Yunqi leads the army to attack the city, the ships will bombard the city with cannons!

After conquering Varanasi, you continued on to the upper reaches of the Ganges and stopped outside Prajapati.

Yuwen Bao immediately stood up and said, "I will obey your orders!"

Li Yuanji nodded and then looked at Xie Shufang.

"Xie Shufang! You lead 80,000 troops to Patraya to stop Patraya's enemy forces from reinforcing Varanasi. It is impossible for Patraya to reach the Varanasi battlefield alone!

After the battle of Varanasi ends and Yuwen Bao leads his fleet to Bolaya, you lead your army to capture Bolaya!"

Xie Shufang stood up excitedly: "Don't worry, my king, I will definitely capture Boroga!"

"Well, I believe you can do it. Don't forget what I told you to do these few days. If you make mistakes again, I will not forgive you."

"Yes!"

Seeing Xie Shufang agree, Li Yuanji breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing Xie Shufang's excitement just now, he was really afraid that this man would forget about it, so he had to remind him again.

Then Li Yuanji looked at the others.

"The army will immediately move camp and follow me to ambush the 380,000-strong coalition army!"

Now the army led by Li Yuanji to ambush is only 150,000 people, but even with only 150,000 people, it is enough to ambush the 380,000 enemy troops in Li Yuanji's eyes.

Then the army began to move and started to break camp and set off.

In Vaishali City, after Wei Yunqi received the royal order from Li Yuanji, he immediately assembled his generals and began to make arrangements for the war.

"Everyone, the king has already captured Huashi City seven days ago. Now the king has ordered us to capture Varanasi, and for this purpose he has sent General Yuwen to lead the West Sea Fleet to assist us.

It only took the king half a day to attack the city of Pataliputra before, so this time we must capture the city of Varanasi within half a day!"

Upon hearing this, all the officers and soldiers below were extremely excited. They had been wanting to launch an attack for a long time. After staying here for so long, it was finally time to launch the attack.

"Please give the order, General!"

Looking at the people who were eager to fight, Wei Yunqi's eyes were shining.

"Weishishi! You lead 40,000 troops to stop the enemy troops from the direction of Japilavastu and Sravasti. No matter how many enemies attack, don't let any of them get through!"

Wei Shishi (recorded as Wei Shibao in the Yuanhe surname compilation) was the son of Wei Yunqi and the only legitimate son.

Wei Yunqi knew very well that this blockade was very difficult, and he would face an attack from more than 100,000 troops. This blockade was very important. Once the Japanese army broke through, he would be attacked from both sides. He had confidence in his own son. (End of this chapter)