Xinshun 1730

Chapter 150 The New Interpretation of Old Wisdom
After the training in the morning, I eat fish again at noon, take a nap for a while, and have classes in the afternoon.

One hundred and twenty officer candidates were sitting on chairs, and books were placed on brand new wooden tables.

The books were all just published, and they didn't use the classical Chinese in the old military books, but the vernacular through and through.

Before the bell rang, there was chatter and laughter.

As soon as the bell rang, everyone shut up and subconsciously sat up straight.

The big squad leader on duty saw Liu Yu coming in and shouted the command to stand up. Before Wu Fangrui's brain could react, his body subconsciously stood up straight.

After saying hello to the teacher, shortly after sitting down, the black-painted wooden boards of the lecture hall rubbed against the plaster pen in Liu Yu's hand, and Wu Fangrui felt that his teeth were about to ache.

Soon, the title was written on the blackboard.

Overview of Easy Matches for Mounted Rifle

Several shapes were drawn on the blackboard, starting with three lines.

"For infantry, especially those equipped with flintlock guns and bayonets, array fire is the most effective way to kill."

"Three columns, this is the most suitable thickness. If there are more, those behind are watching the show. Such a thickness is very helpless for the artillery."

"Artillery likes dense enemy formations. For example, I am facing the current spear formation and matchlock gun formation. Once the artillery goes down, it can hit a series of smashing and destroying. You don't need to use too much aiming."

Speaking of this, another figure appeared on the blackboard, and the original three lines became a thick rectangle.

"The three-array formation is effective against the enemy's infantry, but it is a bit weak against the cavalry. Facing the cavalry, a qualified officer will choose to tighten and thicken the formation."

After speaking, draw another "Hui" shape.

"Cavalry may appear on the flanks and flanks. The best formation for infantry against cavalry is such a phalanx. However, such a phalanx is also favored by artillery and infantry."

"You formed a 'back' formation, I approached with a three-line formation, approaching the rear and the two wings turned forward into a wild goose formation..."

The plaster pen creaked, and a half-enclosed V-shaped array appeared around the back-shaped square array.

"In addition, once the formation of 'back' begins to form, or the infantry in the front row begins to shrink and increase in thickness, there will be gaps between the various battalions, and the officers will be trapped in the formation, making it difficult to command the overall situation."

The number of individual circles or Vs on the blackboard began to increase, and small circles representing commanders also began to appear in various formations.

Three lines, thick matrix, phalanx, flanks, splits, gaps... These concepts, which have been touched a few days ago, are gradually integrated into one.

Similar content and deeper content have been narrated in the next half month.

Wu Fangrui listened very carefully, and he knew that these contents were the real untold secrets.

The truth is still the truth in Sun Wu's art of war, to fight the few with the many, and to fight the few with the many, but the content of the art of war is too profound, it is just Tao, not art.

Once you understand the Tao, you can naturally deduce the appropriate technique.But not everyone can realize the Tao, and not everyone is a genius.

In the past few months, I have been learning various formations.

How long is a line?

What should be the width between the columns of a column?
Column A has 20 people, and Column B also has 20 people. How far should the distance be so that they can turn into a horizontal team after arriving at the predetermined position?
How many types of horizontal teams are there?Under what circumstances should that formation be used?How to change from three horizontal lines to six or even nine horizontal lines?
A battalion is in an empty formation, how can the officers of each company issue their own orders?
If a horizontal line of a company wants to turn at an angle of [-] degrees to meet the enemy, how many steps must the infantry at the rear advance?

In the past few months, I have been learning these contents. In Wu Fangrui's view, these contents are what the whistle chief and the brigade should learn.

And the content that I started to learn today is what the general should learn, or... what the staff should learn?

He is not sure, but he knows that these things must be learned well, and the assessment that will be held soon will require different teams.

There are staff squads, infantry squads, cavalry squads, engineering squads, and artillery squads. It is said that the worst will be assigned to the infantry squad, while the best will be included in the staff squad.

The infantry squad is said to be about to start drills, with less classroom time and the first recruits likely to be recruited by this winter.

The number of people in the cavalry squad is said to be the most, because Liu Yu has been emphasizing that there must be more officers in the cavalry than infantry.

An infantry company only needs a company-level officer and a corporal and post chief composed of eight veterans.

However, a cavalry company needs at least four company-level officers, who are scattered in the cavalry team to control the whole team.

The engineering class and the artillery class will continue to take some courses such as arithmetic and geometry. It is not clear what the staff class will learn for the time being.

In the past few days, there have been more and more speculations and discussions about the staff class. According to the idea of ​​"a well-controlled army and incompetent generals", more and more people think that this staff class should train people who will "plan strategies" in the future.

But Wu Fangrui felt that strategizing was not enough.

For example, as Liu Yu said before, for the marching route, camping arrangement, marching distance, etc., the staff members are not planning strategies, but making detailed plans and making careful arrangements to ensure that even if the general is in a daze, he can guarantee The march is not chaotic, and the camp is not chaotic.

As for the more advanced level of strategizing, I'm afraid it can't be learned in a short time, at least it needs to be sharpened in the war, and now it's just laying the foundation.

According to the observations these days, Wu Fangrui also roughly saw Liu Yu's military training strategy.

Taking the infantry as an example, if a battalion of 5000 men is to be trained, the staff squad and cavalry squad are removed first, leaving about forty infantry officers as candidates.

These forty alternate officers, together with one or two hundred good soldiers who have been training with them for three months, form a company and continue to train the most basic formation, turning, stride, and loading.

Forty alternate officers took turns serving as company commanders on duty.

At the beginning of next year, [-] soldiers will be recruited. The original soldiers from good families will serve as the corps leaders, and the original alternate officers will serve as the platoon leaders.

Repeat the previous content of queue, turn, stride, loading, assassination, etc., to teach five by one.

In the following year, maintain the scale, train formations, change formations, select new corps leaders and select company commanders.

In the next year, five or six thousand soldiers were recruited, and they continued to practice formation, steering, loading, shooting, etc. with one belt and five.

In the next year, practice formation, change, coordination, and march.

After five years of this, the army is successful.

This actually coincides with Wu Zi's method of training soldiers. Thinking about it, it seems that there is no way to do it. People's energy is limited, and Liu Yu has no skills at all.

The navy is okay. There are quite a few people who are said to have witnessed the Rakshasa navy from scratch, and there are also quite a few captains who Liu Yu called can "leave their names in history".

But on the army side, the old officer Liu Yu is not used at all, and the system is completely different from the new army.

If you don't use it completely, you have to start from scratch.

Wu Fangrui thought to himself, Mr. Liu is to be the company commander first, then teach everyone to be the company commander, and then let them be the company commander.

Although this method is stupid, it is really effective, but if the ancient famous general sees it, he may laugh and think it is too stupid.

Now I have finally begun to teach some secrets that are not passed on. Before, I taught them what they are, but now I want to teach them why. Therefore, it is impossible to teach more than 100 people by one person. It is necessary to select 20 people who are truly passed on, otherwise the teaching will not be successful.

Those who were thrown into the infantry squad, I am afraid that according to Mr. Liu, it is enough to know what happened, and there is no need to know why. They are the defective products among this batch of candidate officers.

As long as you know how to turn your company in the camp when you can form a team, line up, and change formations, you will be fine.

You don't even need to think about it, because the real battle will not be based on the company. The company is only a part of the entire battalion, and it is impossible to act alone.All you have to do is to know where you are after the battalion officer gives the order, and how to achieve the battalion order.

As for the cavalry, artillery and engineers, it is even less likely that they are the direct descendants of Mr. Liu.

Thinking of this, Wu Fangrui became firm in his heart, no matter what, he must be admitted to this staff class, this is Master Liu's direct disciple.

In the future, the real selection of the battalion chief officer must be selected from here.

Thinking this way, it is inevitable to look forward to it, gearing up.

However, on the day of the real exam, Wu Fangrui was stunned, or rather, all the students were stunned.

There were no test papers, no standards, but Liu Yu spent ten days talking individually one by one.

Those who finished the conversation were sent directly to Liugong Island, and it was forbidden to talk to those who were not talked to.

Wu Fangrui remembered what he was talking about.

At the beginning, I asked about some of the content I learned a few days ago, which was a simple understanding of the coordination of the three arms of mounted infantry artillery.

After asking these questions, I asked about my understanding of the advantages of a flintlock gun with a bayonet.

Liu Yu has mentioned this question before, and it seems that there is a standard answer, but after Wu Fangrui finished explaining the standard answer, he still boldly expressed his own thoughts.

"In my opinion, in addition to the advantages mentioned before, there is another speed on the battlefield. Arquebuses and spear arrays must move at a very slow speed, so as to ensure that the coordination will not be out of touch. Once there is a out of line, it may make the enemy Take your chance."

"Even if there is a weakness in the enemy's flank, when this thick formation moves over, the enemy may have filled the loophole. But if you don't advance in formation, even if there is a loophole, it is meaningless without the formation."

"Flintlock guns combined with bayonets, once the enemy's flanks have weaknesses, they can quickly advance in column, and attack at the weak points before the enemy's formation is completed."

"A thinner horizontal line is faster than a phalanx; and a column is faster than a horizontal line."

"Sun Tzu said: I am dedicated to one, and the enemy is divided into ten. If the ten attack one, we will be many and the enemy will be few; if we can use the many to attack the few, we will have an agreement with the fighters."

"Or say: Whenever we fight against the enemy, if there are many of them, we should set up a false form to divide their power, and he has to divide his troops to prepare for me. Once the enemy's power is divided, his soldiers will be few. I am dedicated to one, and my soldiers are from the crowd. Defeat the few with the many, and you will be invincible."

"This is all a rough idea, but when you think about it carefully, a decisive battle is nothing more than outnumbering the few. The faster the queue moves, the more opportunities to create an opportunity for outnumbering the few; or when the enemy reveals a flaw, you can catch it .”

This was something I had never said before, and Wu Fangrui didn't know if what he said was right.

In my own camp, all the way to Wude Palace, I want to teach the Seven Books of Wujing. Those who teach may not be able to understand, and those who learn are just thinking for themselves.

After reading these military books, combined with Liu Yu's training and explanations in the past few months, this idea came naturally.

He already supported Liu Yu's view in his heart, thinking that Dashun's military system was backward.

On the whole, Dashun's military is much stronger than that of the previous dynasty, and it has completely eliminated things such as fire door guns, multi-barreled blunderbusses, and thunderbolt blunderbusses, which are open to imagination and proved to be completely useless in actual combat tests.

Instead, heavy matchlock guns and light artillery were used to complete the military reform at the late stage of the 30-year war.

Chuangjun became famous back then because of the spear array and the three walls, and the battle of one stone also defeated the weakened Guanning army.

However, in the Battle of Tongguan, the Dashun Army was taught a lesson by the Taqing.Under the bombardment of the strongest traitor artillery in East Asia at that time, just like the bloody battle in Hunhe, the thick formation of the Dashun Army was bombarded by the artillery.

Afterwards, Jingxiang counterattacked, perhaps due to the immaturity of the flintlock gun at that time, or because of the helplessness of the fierce battle. In short, the way of building the army in Dashun was fixed-the most effective way to fight against cannons. It's more cannon.

The powerful artillery uses small-caliber artillery to make up for the lack of arquebus shooting ability, spear formations cover, government soldiers and light cavalry protect the flanks, arquebus guns and cannons blast open the gap, and elite melee soldiers with heavy armor attack from the gap, without any disadvantage.

The sparse firepower of the matchlock guns?What kind of flintlock guns, just find a small-caliber gun that can be used to build up a mound of dirt on the horse's back to strengthen it, follow the forward thinking, and engage in various small guns to enhance the projected firepower.

This way of thinking is not wrong, but two ways of thinking under the lack of firepower of the matchlock gun.

It's just that when the flintlock gun and bayonet are hung out, as the firing rate increases, the bayonet changes from intubation to casing to tenon.

In the end, at a certain threshold point, the flintlock guns that could be arrayed densely surpassed the firepower combination of small-caliber guns and matchlock guns.

Gu Erye's idea of ​​making so many leather cannons is actually the same. It can be understood as a strengthened matchlock gun.

The Mongols have no artillery, and the Junggars have only recently begun to form artillery from the Swedish officer Renat.

The anti-insurgency chieftain in the Southwest is a security war, and the experience of the security war is more light and small artillery to supplement the firepower.Thirty to fifty catties, hundreds of catties, two to three hundred catties, can be carried on the shoulders, and can be carried by a horse. In the southwestern mountainous area, lightness is the first priority. It can shoot a hundred meters away, or shoot a pile of debris at close range. Stone and iron slag can suppress the opponent.

The Raksha Mission is qualified to comment that Dashun's military system will definitely suffer a great loss on the Eastern European plains. Once the artillery is suppressed by the thick formation, it will be a target; as long as it attacks, it may be out of touch and show its flaws.

But the surrounding small countries, chieftains, tribes and domestic rebels are not eligible.

Relying on their own guns, bullying those who have no guns.Relying on his own strength, let the Mongols rush casually.

The so-called punching young children and kicking the elderly.

Wu Fangrui does not have such a vision, but he has been subtly instilled a lot in the past few months, and he has already recognized Liu Yu's thoughts in his heart.

Combined with my own understanding of the book of war and martial arts, I express my thoughts.

After saying this, I couldn't help but feel a little uneasy, wondering if this was superfluous.

Liu Yu didn't look happy or unhappy either, and asked him some other questions before letting him leave.

After living in the new barracks on Liugong Island for a few days, and expressing their envy to the beautiful brick and stone structure of the Liugong Island Naval Academy with some fellow travelers, Wu Fangrui's uneasy mood finally turned into an exclamation of excitement. roar.

He was admitted to the staff class.

(End of this chapter)