Xinshun 1730

Chapter 183 Evolution
Liu Yu thought to himself, is the little money spent by the new army counted as money?If you know how much money I have posted in the navy, wouldn't you be scared?

Although the Prussian private soldiers in the later period trained thirty to fifty lead bullets a year before they were pulled into the battlefield, they could still make do with it.But thinking about the Qingzhou army training at the small station, it was to shock the court, and the money that should have been spent still had to be spent more.

Although this new army will not be his own in the future, if he spends more today, the navy will be able to ask for more money in the future.

He didn't want to talk about it, so he picked up a paper-wrapped projectile and said: "This thing has another advantage. Once the war starts, the artillery fires, and the soldiers are often panicked, so that the lead bullets are filled first, and then the gunpowder. It's also possible."

"How to load such a gunpowder bag requires rigorous training. You need to hold the lead bullet in your mouth first, just like using chopsticks to become a familiar habit, so you can put an end to it."

After explaining the beauty of it, Li Jiusi nodded and said, "Although this thing is small, it shows that you have kept your mind."

After standing here for a while, the people sent by each battalion had already collected them in an orderly manner, and it only took two quarters of an hour.

During this period, Li Jiusi had already seen the beauty of it. When receiving it here, all the battalions did not panic, but lined up and waited neatly.

"Shou routine, do you often practice like this on weekdays?"

"That's not true. It's just like this when the salary is paid on weekdays. It's a habit. It's the same when you pay the salary, and it's the same when you receive the gunpowder. No one dares to mess up, unless you want to deduct the military salary."

"Hahahaha...that's a coup."

Li Jiusi laughed out loud, feeling extremely satisfied in his heart, thinking that it really wasn't because he came here to prepare in advance.

Thinking about what Liu Yu said about the staff, he asked again: "As Shou Chang said, these staff usually make all kinds of situations in advance? Once there is a need, will they act according to the previous formulation?"

"Yes. There is no need for deliberate rehearsal. When the military order is issued, the staff members have their own plans, and they can use them. How to organize the team and how to maintain order are all practiced on weekdays. Which one to take first and which one to take later , I also made a plan in advance, so I was busy and not chaotic."

"Well, so good."

Li Jiusi was very clear about the meaning of the words "busy but not chaotic". Although the truly elite troops of Dashun could enforce orders and prohibit them, they never reacted so quickly when they encountered various situations.

Especially if there is any need, you have to practice in advance to be busy and not chaotic.If what Liu Yu said is true, the combat effectiveness of this new army can be expected.

Going back to the gathering place in front, dozens of four-wheeled carriages have already marched to the front of each battalion, and the military rations in the pockets have been carried out from above, and distributed to each other.

Li Jiusi didn't continue to read, but asked Liu Yu to take them up the hill to the north.

Before twelve o'clock, the team at the bottom of the mountain had finished forming, the drums stopped, and the army looked solemn.

After the report, Li Jiusi looked at the neat team down the mountain and nodded.From the present point of view alone, the speed of assembly is fast enough.

And because of the unification of equipment, from flower team to pure team, it is much easier to form a team.

According to the battalion as a group, they lined up in a queue.

It seems that as long as there is an order, the chief officers of each battalion only need to issue an order to turn, and they can advance in sequence just like when they lined up just now.

The team of nearly [-] people stopped at the foot of the mountain, but there was no sound, let alone any movement.

The black bayonet hangs on the muzzle of the gun, like a dense forest, which is frightening.

Companies of a hundred men were arranged in four columns, each with about twenty-five men.

Because there is no lighted match on the body, there is no need to be afraid of igniting the gunpowder on the comrades, and they stand shoulder to shoulder almost shoulder to shoulder.

Five companies form a battalion, and the interval between each company is about fifteen paces.

This is a formation that Li Jiusi has never seen before. Dashun's military system is a combination of hot and cold weapons. The formation of arquebus is looser than this, and the formation of spears is much denser than this.

He couldn't understand it.

"Why do companies have to be separated by more than ten steps?"

"Mr. Hui, this is the marching form. If you encounter an enemy, you can quickly deploy it. If the enemy is infantry, you can quickly form a horizontal formation according to the battalion; if the enemy is cavalry, then such a large hole can just quickly form a hollow formation." ;If you find a gap in the enemy's formation, you can use this formation to attack the gap. This is the marching army formation. The so-called Tai Chi produces two forms, and two forms produce four images. This is the original formation. Change according to the situation, move according to the shape , How to change formations depends on the command of the chief general.”

Li Jiusi smiled and said, "I thought that Westerners might not know how to use formations in their military formations. Who would have thought that Westerners would also use formations?"

"No formation makes an army. There are thousands of formations, and when setting up an formation, you have to adapt to the situation. It's just that you are going to march, so this kind of formation is more suitable."

Li Jiusi observed the army formation and waited for about a quarter of an hour. After confirming that there was no movement within a quarter of an hour, he asked: "Shou Chang once said that a well-controlled army does not need a general, nor can it be easily defeated. Now I come Command, maybe the command can move?"

"Naturally. The Duke only needs to tell you what may happen in the next step. As for the immediate command, that's what the general should do. It's not the general's job to change the formation or change the formation unexpectedly. The Duke may as well try."

Speaking of this, Li Jiusi also became curious and asked, "How to try?"

"The Duke can assume a certain situation. For example, marching towards a distant hill, it has been confirmed that there are no enemies around. Or the enemy is in front, and quickly advance to a certain place to form a formation."

Liugong Island is not too big, but rather narrow. Li Jiusi pondered what Liu Yu meant, and then pointed to a small hill by the sea in the distance, and said, "Let's take that hill as the standard, march with various troops, occupy the hill, and Spread out on the hill."

The hill was only three or four miles away from the place where the array was formed, which meant something.

Liu Yu nodded, called the staff around him over, and said to Li Jiusi: "You don't need to give me orders, you can just give them orders directly."

A group of staff officers with dishonorable reputations were eager to try, and they all knew that this was an opportunity to perform.Hearing Liu Yu's order, they all stepped aside and came to Li Jiusi's side and said, "Please give the order, Duke."

Li Jiu thought for a while, then said: "Just as I said just now, the enemy is ahead, I don't know the details. You will march to that hill within an hour, occupy the hill, and spread out your formation to prepare for the enemy .”

"Yes!"

Wu Fangrui shouted, gave a military salute with his legs, and quickly made a plan with several staff officers.

"Mr. Hui, our department intends to form a formation with the first regiment quickly marching to occupy the hill, followed by the second and third regiments, forming an array with the two wings. The artillery will follow. After deploying on the hill, the artillery will occupy the hill. The regiment advances. The left flank is the sea, and the cavalry can be stationed on the right flank."

Li Jiusi was startled, and Liu Yu explained: "This group of staff officers only have the power to formulate plans, but not to order and execute them. They have to be ordered by the Duke."

"Well. Very good, let's do it like this."

After speaking, he took out his pocket watch and looked at it.

One hour, this is the elite time as Li Jiusi understands it.About three miles, it takes time to line up, march, and deploy.

After the order was issued, several messengers quickly conveyed the order to the following.

dong dong dong...

The silent drum sounded instantly.

The moment the drums sounded, Li Jiusi felt as if a forest was moving, neatly, like waves of wheat blown by the wind.

After turning around, the [-]st Battalion of the [-]st Regiment began to march forward.

The four battalions of the same regiment followed closely behind, and when they were about a mile in, three of the four battalions behind them began to turn left and right, and it took only a few minutes to separate them from the first battalion. interval.

Each camp is supported in the shape of a character, with a row of 25 people as a horizontal line, and each company is separated by a distance of about fifteen steps.

There were about a hundred paces between camps.

The next two regiments also completed formation, the cavalry forming on the left flank and the artillery on the regiment on the right flank.

It only took about a quarter of an hour to change from a formation that is convenient for marching to a formation that can be deployed to meet the enemy at any time, and it does not affect the speed of marching.

Li Jiusi was secretly surprised, thinking at this speed, how could it take an hour?I'm afraid it will unfold in another quarter of an hour.

He wanted to test the speed of Qingzhou soldiers' transformation, and suddenly ordered: "The enemy's situation has changed. The enemy cavalry left the formation and attacked quickly."

Give an order, and after the messenger quickly conveyed the order to the front staff, Li Jiusi heard a rush of drums and whistles.

The scene that stunned him the most appeared.

The regiment that was marching ahead stopped instantly after hearing the whistle.

The officers of the battalion did not know what they were shouting, they were too far away to hear clearly, and the sound of the drums suddenly changed.

The foremost company stood still, the rearmost company stood still, and two of the three remaining companies in the middle turned quickly to the left and right.

The interval reserved between each company, and the training results of each company for several months, were brought into full play at this moment.

In just two to three minutes, the regiment at the front quickly deployed five small hollow formations in accordance with the character-shaped marching formation to meet the enemy.

The first two rows of soldiers kept their bayonets, and the soldiers inside quickly removed the bayonets to facilitate subsequent loading.

The small artillery that followed the infantry quickly deployed at the corners of each battalion's phalanx.

The two regiments that followed took a little longer to develop into two large hollow formations of more than [-] people.

The artillery was deployed right next to the large hollow formation, and the cavalry on the left wing quickly maneuvered to the rear to cover the artillery that deployed at the slowest speed.

All of this was so orderly and orderly, Li Jiusi, who was observing all this on the hillside, was completely stunned.

The speed of change is too fast.

Faster than he expected.Especially the regiment at the front, it took too long to expand into a hollow formation.Even if the enemy's cavalry was seen with the naked eye, even if the scouts didn't find the enemy at all, the speed of this deployment was enough to complete the formation change before the enemy's cavalry rushed.

Once the formation is completed, the enemy's cavalry will inevitably die if they break away from the formation.

He jumped on the horse and rushed down to the bottom of the hillside, followed by Liu Yu.

After arriving at the location of the first regiment, Li Jiusi was extremely shocked.

The five battalions rely on each other in the shape of Pin, separated by a hundred and twenty steps.

The soldiers in the first row squatted on the ground, the soldiers in the second row stood, and the soldiers in the back unloaded their bayonets and got ready to load.

If the enemy cavalry attacked, facing such a phalanx, they would definitely be unable to break through, at least the Mongolian cavalry he knew well could not break through.

Shooting horseback and infantry against each other is courting death.

And if you abandon your own formation and attack, facing such a formation, you can only walk helplessly through the gaps between the various battalion formations, which is simply the target of these musketeers.

After turning the horse around twice, I found that there was no dead angle.These musketeers can be both musketeers and spearmen, showing their advantages.

Arquebuses with open flames cannot form such a dense formation, and mixed spearmen must use a large formation to cover the musketeers, and the speed of marching must be extremely slow. If there is a slight disconnect, the cavalry can kill the arquebus first. The army formation with only spearmen can't make any changes at all.

After turning around two more times, Li Jiusi ordered: "The enemy cavalry has retreated, line up horizontally!"

The messengers quickly conveyed the order to each battalion, and the drumbeat changed, and the battalions that had been in the hollow formation just now quickly reorganized into a company, and quickly spread out after turning around, forming a horizontal line of four.

The 120 steps between each battalion make the formation of each battalion independent of each other.

In just a few minutes, a thin and long line appeared on the flat ground.

Li Jiusi, who was training in the Beijing camp, really liked this kind of army.

Looking at this long horizontal line of about [-] paces, he gave another order.

"Go on."

Swinging the saber forward, the drummers composed of half and half children beat the waist drum, and the melodious flute played a cheerful rhythm.

The rows of soldiers stepped on the drums, held their heads up, and slowly moved forward.

The horizontal line of more than 400 steps is like a white wave on the beach, moving forward neatly.

(End of this chapter)