"Yes, if we have made all the necessary preparations, this is a possibility. However, if we expose this loophole here, it would simply be inducing Yang Yizhen to do this, and this possibility would be infinitely magnified."

Lin Hai explained to Shi Zhen'er, "Do you think they don't know what I just said? Their fighting skills have long surpassed mine. It's not that they don't know, they're just greedy.

I forbad them from using explosives easily because I didn't want them to think, 'There's no need to think, just push the explosives along.' But they didn't actually use the explosives. They might even say they wouldn't use them when they needed to, but they would take greater risks for greater military merit. This is what I meant by underestimating the enemy, acting blindly, and being opportunistic.

Lin Hai looked at the two students who lowered their heads and said, "Thinking like that is unacceptable!"

After all, Lin Hai knew very well that even though muskets had been around for a long time, it did not mean that they were invincible. It was not uncommon for cold weapon troops with high morale and tough style to defeat early musket troops, and it had happened many times!

"Don't think that just because we haven't lost a battle before, we won't fail. And don't think that just because we fooled Yang Yizhen before, he's really an idiot. An idiot can't be prime minister!"

Lin Hai felt angry when he looked at his two students, but he also knew that Qinghe had actually experienced very few major battles. In the past, they relied more on strategies or equipment advantages to fight asymmetric battles, and had no experience in fighting enemies of similar or even larger size.

The Khmer people, who have existed for hundreds of years, cannot be weaklings. Weaklings have long been in other people's pots, bowls, stomachs, and even toilets.

There will be many more wars in the future, and Lin Hai feels it is necessary to correct the crooked domino at the very beginning.