Suining County.
"General! Don't be impulsive!" The deputy general held Li Aotian tightly.
Li Aotian had a gloomy face, his emotions were on the verge of rage, and even his breathing was a little difficult: "The rebel army surrounded Kyoto, but we can only stay in Suining County. How can I stay calm?!"
The deputy general had tears in his eyes. His whole family was in Kyoto, how could he not miss them?
However, the last private letter from the government repeatedly warned and instructed Li Aotian to stay in Suining County and guard against Yunzhou!
"General, think about the official's letter."
Li Aotian's teeth clenched and his chest rose and fell violently: "When a general is on the battlefield, he may not obey the king's orders."
The deputy general breathed rapidly and reminded in a low voice: "Duke Yun's previous experience is a lesson for you. Are you going to repeat the same mistake, General?"
The emperor was narrow-minded, and Duke Yun repeatedly failed to listen to him, and was finally forced to rebel.
Our general is loyal to the Great Zhou. If the emperor really fears him, he will probably just wait for his death.
Li Aotian hammered the wall heavily, but he had soldiers but couldn't move. It felt so frustrating!
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As for why the government wrote that letter, the story begins more than a month ago.
After the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty reached a secret agreement with Western Xia and Tubo, he was determined to move north and naturally did not want Li Aotian to leave Suining County.
Although Fang La's rebellion army was coming with great force, they were not worthy enough in the eyes of the Great Zhou court. Only Grand Tutor Tong strongly requested Li Aotian to return to the capital.
In order to deal with Grand Tutor Tong, the Emperor of the Great Zhou wrote a private letter to Li Aotian.
The messenger in charge of delivering the letter set out from Kyoto, preparing to pass through Tongli County and then go to Suining County.
Logically, this journey should be safe and sound.
But, we should always be prepared for the worst.
Tongli County seemed peaceful on the surface, but in reality, there were undercurrents. Especially this winter, many poor people had a hard time living and could not afford the extra taxes, so they had to go up the mountain to the Yunzhou base.
"Ada, the master is still thinking about us. The new batch of firearms are much better than the previous ones, and there are enough bullets." An old man with a long beard and a feather fan in his hand shook his head in the middle of winter.
Ada touched the gun in his hand and distributed it to his companions generously: "Master asked us to stay in Tongli County to attract Li Aotian's attention. After attracting him a few times, Master took over several other counties. Alas, Li Mingde took the trouble to send us supplies and weapons, but we didn't use them at all. Otherwise, let's go back to Yunzhou?"
The old man with a long beard paused and said with a frown, "Ada, how can you think like that? Duke Yun sent you to Tongli County not only to attract Li Aotian's attention, but also to cut off the connection between Jingdu and Li Aotian at a critical moment."
“When is the critical moment?”
The old man with a long beard stroked his beard and said, "When the time comes, you will know it naturally."
In fact, the old man with a long beard didn’t know either.
He loves to read Romance of the Three Kingdoms and admires Zhuge Kongming the most. He finally goes to the Yunzhou base and serves as a military advisor to Ada, but he still hasn't satisfied his passion of being a military advisor!
The old man with a long beard rolled his eyes and suggested, "Now that we have enough weapons, why don't we practice special forces operations?"
Ada was not interested in this: "What's the point of practicing? With firearms, killing the enemy is as easy as chopping melons and vegetables."
In the face of powerful military force, all conspiracies and tricks are paper tigers.
The old man with a long beard said angrily: "If you don't think about the future, you will have immediate worries. Firearms are great, but don't you think about what we should do if they fall into the hands of the enemy?"
Ada: "How could it fall into the hands of the enemy? The Arsenal is under strict guard."
The old man with a long beard said: "In the past, when Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms, the Qin iron sword played a great role. But now, everyone has an iron sword."
Ada was confused. What did that mean?
The old man with a long beard choked up. He almost forgot that Ada was an uneducated foreigner, so he changed an example: "Okay, let's talk about stirrups and saddles. Before these two things appeared, the Central Plains cavalry was no match for the grassland cavalry. After these two things appeared, the gap in strength between the two was narrowed to a certain extent."
When it comes to this, Ada understands.
Nowadays, grassland herdsmen are also accustomed to using saddles and stirrups!
The thought of the firearms falling into the hands of the enemy made Ada unable to sit still. Get started! Practice!
Ada took the lead personally and selected thirty musketeers. He decided to pick an opponent and practice tactics.
Duke Yun once gave a speech entitled "Hypotheses on the Application of Firearms" at an internal seminar for military officers.
Ada was fortunate enough to attend the class.
Duke Yun proposed at the meeting that the application of firearms should give priority to firepower coverage, but when one's own firepower is not superior, the three-three system can be chosen.
Ada has the same choice as all other officers. Good firepower coverage is good, but it is too expensive, so it is better to study the three-three system.
For the exercise target, Ada chose the largest bandit in Tongli County.
Tongli County had sent troops to suppress bandits many times, but had never been successful.
Ada guessed that it might not be possible to defeat these bandits with only 20 or 30 people, so it would be a good opportunity to let them fight a few more times to accumulate experience.
The Yunzhou base and the bandit’s den were located in the east and west respectively.
Ada and his companions set off with ten loads of food and a few slices of pork.
They found a secluded hillside with a good view and conducted routine training.
Charge in formation, prone position, basic training of tactical movements, comprehensive firearms, and explanation of the use of grenades.
Jing Fang Yinnian provided ideas, and the military workshop worked hard to research and finally made grenades! There was not much, just one box, and Gu Nanxi gave half to Li Mingde and half to Ada.
Grenades have not yet been used in actual combat, so no one knows how effective they are.
Just after warming up, the Yunzhou soldier on guard issued an alarm: "There is a group of bandits at the foot of the mountain, and they are about to be exposed to our range."
The bandit army was not large in number, only about thirty or forty people, and they were holding a dozen civilians hostage.
"Ada, let's start the fight. We have a good terrain. Go down the mountain road and there are mountains and forests nearby where we can ambush."
The bandit army swaggered through the mountains, whipping the civilians from time to time with a very arrogant attitude.
The Yunzhou soldiers were eager to try.
Ada coughed twice and warned them, "There are ordinary people in their team. We should not use grenades unless it is absolutely necessary."
After saying that, Ada carefully recalled what Duke Yun said at the meeting, and followed suit to deploy the troops.
He first arranged four people to keep watch on the spot. The view from the hillside was very good, and they could observe at any time whether there were any reinforcements from the bandit army.
Then three people were arranged as a grenade throwing team, set up about twenty meters away from the mountain road.
Although grenades are not needed in this small battle, for the sake of practice, we must have all the necessary ones.
Ada also called five Yunzhou soldiers with the best marksmanship to ambush in the grove and be responsible for shooting the bandit leaders.
The others followed him and rushed forward! (End of this chapter)
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