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Published at 21st of October 2021 10:57:14 AM


Chapter 190: 190

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After Li Xiao made up his mind to attack the city of health in Vietnam, he immediately ordered Yokota Xingqing to contact his brother Yokota Xingzhong. Li Xiao wanted to ask him how the Ninjas were responsible for collecting information in Vietnam recently.

The two hundred ninjas were supplied with high salaries from the surplus of Li Xiao's sister Xiaofan running the Ramen restaurant of the Ming Dynasty.

Naturally, Li Xiao expects them to make some achievements.

After receiving the urgent summons from Li Xiao, Yokota fortunately kept on walking and came to Shengang city in the evening.

Henggu Xingzhong is still dressed as a nothingness monk and a dusty appearance. It is obvious that he came from a long distance.

Li Xiao first asked Yokota Xingzhong what he had ordered him to do to assassinate the elite Ninja Team.

Yokota replied, "because of the strict requirements of the Lord, there are not many people who meet the requirements. In the past six months, only 12 ninjas meet the requirements. They are already training and can perform the assassination task at any time."

Li Xiao was a little dissatisfied at first, but then he understood the reason under Yokota's explanation.

It turns out that the other party is also based on the principle of "prefer shortage to abuse". Since Li Xiao has high expectations for the assassination Ninja Team, it is not easy to select personnel.

In Li Xiao's opinion, Yokota apparently selected and trained this Ninja assassination team as a special force for future generations.

In addition, Yokota also formulated the rule of eliminating the weakest person every two months. Of course, in return for their strict training, this Ninja assassination team is also working with a high salary.

After listening to Yokota's detailed description, Li Xiao was still satisfied with his work.

Then he asked Yokota about Chengsheng and Saito's family.

Yokota fortunately returned from Chengsheng city this time, and then reported all the first-hand information he had collected to Chengsheng city to Li Xiao.

Chengsheng City, also known as snake tail City, covers the whole hills and mountains. It was a large-scale mountain city at that time.

The city is close to shentongchuan in the East, and its big hand gate is located in the south. All the south side is the most solid area in the city. The fortifications on the city include earth bridges, pill horses, double tiger mouth, and artificial cutting cliffs.

Obviously, it was carefully shot by the defenders.

With these information points, Li knew that the city was born in the city. If he wanted to attack, it was not enough to rely on Li Xiao's 200 standing stocks and add 300 new recruits.

Li Xiao was right.

In fact, in the past, Chengsheng city was surrounded by a large army led by the head of Shenbao family, and was attacked for more than a year.

Later, the position of God's protector and Saito family leader Saito niche, under the intermediary of Neng Dengyu mountain family, married their daughter to Saito niche on the condition of God's protector's position.

Therefore, Shenbao family and Saito family formed an alliance, and the relationship between them heated up rapidly.

In addition to having a strong city, Saito's own strength is not weak. Saito's own stone height is 15000 stone. With the convenience of Chengsheng city as an important trading base in Feiyue, its business income in a year is also high.

There is a standing army of about 100 people stationed in Chengsheng city all year round. If mobilization and recruitment are carried out again, a peasant army of about 500 people can also be gathered to go to war.

As far as the strength of both sides is concerned, Saito's family is only above and not below Li Xiao's current strength.

Of course, if Li Xiao continues to develop Shengang Yinshan next year, his strength will surpass the Saito family, but for Li Xiao, if he waits until next year to carry out the Saito family strategy, it is undoubtedly a missed opportunity.

In addition to his own power, Saito Jia also has two powerful allies. The wife of Saito family leader Saito liki protects the daughter of acting God's protector in Yuezhong, and his son Saito Xinli married the daughter of his sister Xiaodao lianglai.

The elder sister Xiaolu's family will not say at present. It will certainly not pose a threat to Li Xiao this year. If she relies on her father's and son's ambition and ability in the future, she will be a strong enemy of Li Xiao.

But Shenbao family is different.

Among the four counties in central Vietnam, funegative county (central Vietnam) and sheshui county (Northwest Central Vietnam) are the sphere of influence of Shenbao family. The Lord of Shenbao family, Shenbao chief, serves as the representatives of these two counties, while the largest Xinchuan county (eastern central Vietnam) is occupied by the famous vertebrate family. The famous vertebrate family is also the guardian generation of central Vietnam, and its owner, vertebrate kangyin, is also the representative of Xinchuan county.

However, three years after Yonglu, the forces of empress Yue have entered Xinchuan county.

Libo County (southwest of central Vietnam) is now the sphere of influence of zongzong.

The above is only a general scope. In fact, various forces are intertwined among counties.

The Shenbao family, one of the three guardians of Vietnam and China in the past, should be described by the words "rebirth after robbery".

In the 17th year of Yongzheng, that is, 1520, Shenbao qingzong, the owner of Shenbao family, was defeated by Changwei (the modest father of Shangshan), and since the blade, Shenbao's family declined.

After that, his son Shen Baochang revived the Shenbao family, defeated the invading zongzong, and restored the family's old leading wife negative county and sheshui county.

After completing the great cause of ZTE, Shen Baochang worked hard, launched the Vietnam China unification war, and made a meritorious attack on another famous Vietnam China Guardian on behalf of vertebra.

At that time, the famous vertebrate couldn't resist the attack of the post of God protector, so he asked Shangshan Qianxin for help, which became Shangshan Qianxin's excuse to intervene in Vietnam.

In the third year of Yonglu's reign, one year before the fourth Sichuan island war, Shangshan Qianxin went to Vietnam for the first time along the route of his grandfather and father.

With the help of Shangshan Qianxin, the famous vertebrate family defeated the army of Shenbao's post. After several fierce battles, Shangshan Qianxin twice captured the Shenbao family's city, Fushan city.

God's protector had no choice but to surrender to Shangshan modestly through an intermediary who could climb the Yigang mountain.

Because Xi mingkangyin invited forces from other countries to intervene in the Vietnam China incident, Shen Baochang and Xi mingkangyin forged an inseparable gratitude and hatred.

After Shen Baochang's position fell to Shangshan Qianxin, Shangshan Qianxin took it lightly and let him retain funegative county and sheshui county.

Therefore, as an ally of Saito family in Chengsheng City, the power of Shenbao family is definitely not something Li Xiao can shake now. If Li Xiao attacks Chengsheng City, he must consider the response and attitude of Shenbao family.

Li Xiao must consider that if he conquers the city and leads to the expedition of Shenbao family, he must deal with it in this way.

After hearing Yokota's report, Li Xiao made some arrangements for Vietnam China intelligence and asked him to step down and continue to be responsible for the surveillance of Chengsheng city.

In the coming days, Li Xiao will pay close attention to his standing training and immediately form a new army to enhance his strength.

At present, his 300 standing stocks have been successfully trained. Li Xiaoli immediately handed them over to Dao shengmeng and asked him to reorganize the city's 500 troops with the original 200 standing stocks.

The most important thing for Li Xiao is to quickly train this standing army into an elite army to fight.

Li Xiao first expanded and organized his own iron artillery team on the basis of Xiaofan Xiaoxian's original iron artillery team.

Li Xiao spent a lot of money to buy Iron guns from businessmen in Jinjiang and set up an iron gun team of 80 people for himself.

The cost of buying iron guns has almost spent all Li Xiao's savings and advanced all the income of Shengang Yinshan this year, which is equivalent to borrowing a lot of debt from Yanwu Qiuzhen, but Li Xiaoshen believes that the money is worth it.

In previous battles, Li Xiao has seen the role of iron cannon as a hot weapon in the era of cold weapons.

In addition to its extremely high lethality, the roar of iron guns will also be deterred. Many subordinates who do not know why iron guns are light enough.

In addition to the use of iron guns, Li Xiao also decided to refer to the Spanish phalanx, which has become the mainstream tactics in Europe, and the Morris phalanx, which will shine in the future in the hands of Gustav II, the northern lion.

Li Xiao decided to use the mixed formation of iron artillery team and foot light team to train his standing equipment into a regular tactical formation.

The Spanish infantry phalanx is inherited from the Macedonian phalanx and the ancient Roman Legion phalanx, with companies, columns and infantry regiments as the military establishment.

Companies are usually between 250 and 300 people, columns are composed of four to five companies, and infantry regiments are composed of three columns.

With its military establishment and operational tasks, it is similar to modern regiment and battalion units.

In the Spanish infantry phalanx, the column is generally used as the smallest combat unit. A column generally has two different companies, namely, the Spearman company and the Musketeer company. Sometimes there are halberds and Sword Shield companies.

For some time in the 16th century, the military system of Spanish phalanx ruled European wars.

The tactical formation to be adopted by Li Xiao is also listed in the battle front, mainly following the method of Gustav II.

Gustav II was known by Li Xiao when he read a biography of 20 militarists in the world in primary school, and he was very impressed by it.

In history, Gustav II was the king of Sweden. In later evaluation, he was not only an excellent general, but also an excellent military reformer.

His era of glory was the 30-year war on the side of the Protestant camp.

However, Gustav's tactics are not his own creation. The person he imitates is the famous Dutch Prince Mosley,

The battle formation invented by Morris, known as the "Morris cross", also refers to the ancient Roman Legion square and the later Spanish Square.

After Li Xiao came up with this idea, the next day he asked Shimao shengmeng, Xiaofan Xiaoxian, Koichiro Muxia and other senior generals to discuss it.

Li Xiao's idea is almost unheard of by the Japanese in this era. Even people as knowledgeable as Shimao shengmeng have never heard of any tactical formation.

Dao shengmeng took the lead in asking Li Xiao, "Sir, your thoughts and thoughts have never been heard of by your subordinates. Generally speaking, the combat methods of the famous reserve teams of various countries are all in the joint battle, in which the iron artillery team and the bow foot light team shoot first in front of the array, and then the gun foot light team press on the attack. What's the advantage of the so-called tactical formation, sir?"

Li Xiao explained to Dao shengmeng: "the past tactics are all suitable for the tactics of light bow and foot, not for the tactics of light iron gun and foot. Iron gun is different from bow and arrow. Its range is longer than that of bow and arrow, its firing speed is slower than that of bow and arrow, and its lethality is stronger than that of bow and arrow. Therefore, the use of the new tactics is entirely a new one combined with iron gun and light gun and foot."

Iron artillery team with light guns?

As soon as Li Xiao said this, all the ministers immediately expressed surprise. (to be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly ticket at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation.)





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