I want to be emperor

Chapter 64
At first, when they saw that Luo Zhixue paid more attention to the bird guns, they thought they would distribute the captured bird guns directly to each department.

These days, many Ming armies, especially those in the inland and southern areas with more complex terrain, actually do this. It is generally a few shield players plus a few spearmen plus one or two musketeers or The archers form a combat team of more than ten people.

It is very useful for small-scale battles in complex terrain, such as fighting a dozen thieves, Japanese pirates and so on.

But it’s not enough to fight against large-scale regular army. This kind of tactic without strict formation meets large-scale regular army. If they directly line up and charge, you will be finished, let alone regular army and cavalry...

Therefore, the Qi family army played smoothly in the mandarin duck formation in the south, but after going north, they directly switched to chariot formation and cavalry. As for the pure infantry, they were only used as auxiliary troops.

What is a chariot formation? In fact, it is a bunch of carriages equipped with a large number of light artillery. The mobility is very good, and the firepower is also good. When encountering enemy cavalry, they can form an formation to protect themselves. It can be described as offensive and defensive. Cavalry is very useful.

The effect would be even better with the cooperation of cavalry, so after the Qi family army went north, it once shocked the northern grasslands, ensuring the safety of the north for decades.

As for why the Jiliao frontier army pulled away from Shangdong captives later, there are too many reasons after careful analysis, but they can all be summed up in one sentence: Great Ming has its own national conditions!

But the series of military failures at the end of the Ming Dynasty had nothing to do with such things as equipment technology and tactics.

In terms of weapons, they have Hongyi cannons and bird guns, and they have continued to lead the East in the field of firearms for a long time, even now seven years after Chongzhen.

As for cold weapons, let alone cold weapons, the Ming Dynasty was a unified dynasty in the Central Plains, and they could pull out a large number of cold weapons, armor, bows and arrows at will...

But they still lost.

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Now the rural protection battalion in Funiu Mountain is still from the Yulin frontier army at heart, and the dozens of them are naturally in contact with the same way as the army, so some of the infantry tactics that they have developed before are similar to the tactics of the officers and soldiers.

However, what Luo Zhixue is doing now is obviously different from the tactics of the government and the army, which naturally arouses the curiosity and suspicion of Wang Xiazi, Er Yongduo and others.

After all, they have never been exposed to this weaving method, and it is normal to have concerns about this new tactic.

But Luo Zhixue didn't intend to explain more to them at the meeting, just continued: "Huang Dingquan is the fifth sentry officer!"

Huang Dingquan, who was the acting deputy sentry officer of the former supply battalion, also served as the captain of the second team. This person was also promoted by Luo Zhixue himself. The man turned to serve as the sentry officer of the fifth post.

Since Luo Zhixue has directly decided on it, and it doesn't have much influence on everyone present, they naturally have no objections.

After many arrangements were made, the meeting officially ended, and Luo Zhixue called Huang Dingquan in again to give an explanation.

Explain what?
Naturally, it was to explain how he specifically programmed and practiced the fifth whistle. Huang Dingquan didn't understand this stuff.

The establishment of the fifth post was an attempt by Luo Zhixue to reform the infantry tactics of the Baoxiang Battalion, that is, to use musketeers and spearmen as the main infantry in the army, with a small number of swordsmen and archers.

And the original intention of this kind of reform is not because of how powerful the musketeers are. In fact, Luo Zhixue knows very well that the combat effectiveness of musketeers who use matchlock guns such as bird guns is actually the same.

If possible, the current Luo Zhixue actually wants enough archers.

But the problem is that there are not enough archers in the Baoxiang camp!

Because most of the archers in the Baoxiang camp are actually temporary cavalry. There are actually not many infantry archers in the real left, center, right armies and the supply camp. It can't support the long-range fire support of hundreds of infantry in the entire rural protection battalion.

And it was impossible for Luo Zhixue to use the cavalry as archers all the time. It would be too wasteful. He had to find a way to strengthen the infantry's long-range firepower.

It's not that he never thought about increasing the proportion of archers, but the training time for archers is too long. It is impossible for Baoxiangying to train a large number of archers in a short period of time. captured.

At the same time, the production cycle of strong bows for military use is too long, it can take several years at every turn, Luo Zhixue simply can't wait.

In this way, Luo Zhixue could only put the infantry's long-range firepower on the muskets.

reason?

On a!
The training of a musketeer is very simple, and a civilian with a moderate physical fitness can basically be pulled out to fight after a few months of training.

The construction of muskets is also relatively simple, and there is no need for him to make additional technical innovations, and Song Blacksmith and his son can do it directly.

Many reasons contributed to Luo Zhixue's determination to transfer the infantry's long-range firepower from archers to muskets.

Of course, the existing archers will continue to use them, and they will continue to recruit archers for enhancements.

Regardless of whether it is a musketeer or an archer, Luo Zhixue attaches great importance to it, and will not directly eliminate the archer just because he decided to develop a musketeer.

In the following time, Luo Zhixue and Huang Dingquan talked in depth for more than an hour, and finally finalized the basic problem of the fifth whistle.

The fifth whistle will adopt the layout of spearmen in the middle and musketeers on both sides. The ratio of the two sides is one to one.

The spearmen in the middle are temporarily arranged in six rows, each row has ten people, and there is a team on each side, that is, thirty musketeers.

In this way, the fifth sentry will have more troops than the previous four infantry sentries. There are 120 line soldiers, excluding officers and orderlies.

If you are fighting, go directly to the formation. The spearman is in the center as the main force in close combat to protect the musketeer. After the musketeer fires from a long distance, even in the melee stage, he can retreat slightly under the cover of the spearman and continue to fire. .

But in order for the fifth post to play its due role, the cooperation of cavalry and artillery is actually indispensable.

If we rely on infantry alone, the enemy army on the opposite side will be finished if they pull out the artillery. Not to mention the artillery, if the cavalry come around the flanks or simply behind, the infantry array will also be finished.

On the battlefield in the seventeenth century, infantry, artillery, and cavalry are the Holy Trinity, and one cannot be dispensed with.

As for the cavalry, there is no need to worry about the Baoxiangying. There are hundreds of cavalry at the cavalry post, most of them are elites who are good at riding and shooting, and a few are old thieves who have been fighting for many years.

In terms of artillery, today's artillery post is still a little bit worse.

But the [-]-jin cannon built by Song Blacksmith and the others is expected to be completed next month, so there will be no major problems by then.

The four parts of the left, middle and right supply battalions were reorganized into the first to fourth posts, and the fifth post was newly established. At the same time, the artillery team was upgraded to an artillery post.

This was the main reform within the Rural Protection Battalion implemented by Luo Zhixue after the Second Songshan Battle.

The reason why we chose to promote it right after the Second Songshan Battle was to take advantage of the time when Luo Zhixue's personal prestige was relatively high and the morale of the army was good when he won the attacking Ming army.

If this was changed to normal times, Luo Zhixue would still be worried that other moths would appear.

The reorganization of the four outposts in the army is not a big problem, there is no need to change the organization, just change the name, and then add new recruits and add a batch of cold weapons and equipment.

The fifth whistle training will be more difficult. After all, it is the first time to do these things, so it will be more troublesome. However, Huang Dingquan, who was promoted to be the fifth whistle officer, is very motivated. And so on, continue to think about how to train.

Because of the relatively large vacancies after the reorganization, and there were indeed many Ming army prisoners who had a strong willingness to turn to thieves, Luo Zhixue also selected some Ming army prisoners of war to be included.

When selecting prisoners of war from the Ming army, the basic principle is to pass the voluntary and physical fitness.

Luo Zhixue, who is unwilling, will not force others to join the bandits, but let them stay and work in the prisoner-of-war camp. Anyway, they can do a lot of things in the rural protection camp, whether it is opening up wasteland or farming or repairing bridges and paving roads. All require a lot of labor.

It's just that those prisoners of war who were formerly county brave and civilian husbands are not very motivated. They would rather work hard every day in the prisoner-of-war camp and not have enough to eat, rather than surrender to bandits.

On the contrary, those soldiers who mainly recruit soldiers have a stronger willingness to surrender to the bandits. Basically, after surrendering, one-third of them expressed their intention to join the big family of the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp almost on the spot, and another third of them surrendered. After a few days of life as a prisoner of war, Ren also expressed his willingness to fight for the defense of the flowers and plants of Funiu Mountain.

Why is there such a situation?
Because those county braves and civilian husbands are basically locals from Lushan County temporarily recruited by the government. These people are actually ordinary people.

But those soldiers don't have too many worries. They are all recruits, and they are recruits from other places. If one person is full and the whole family is not hungry, there is no psychological burden. It's not very disgusting, so there are more soldiers who are willing to turn to thieves.

Coupled with a small number of county braves and civilian husbands who were willing to surrender to thieves, there were more than 200 prisoners of war who were willing to surrender to thieves.

After these people are broken up and assigned to various departments, they can almost fill the vacancies.

And when Luo Zhixue was reorganizing in Songshan, Wang Jida, who managed to escape from the mountain under the protection of his personal followers, was also thinking about how to explain to his superiors.

Foolishly telling the boss truthfully that it must be the end, even if it is good, it will be the end of dismissal from office.

So I have to come up with a version that confuses right and wrong. If I tell the story well and do a good job in the follow-up, not only will I not be punished, but maybe I will be promoted to a higher level.

Wang Jida doesn't know how to fight or anything, but when it comes to writing articles and making up stories, he is still very confident.

He is a dignified top three jinshi, from the county examination to the palace examination, all the way from the imperial examination road, he did not know how many times he had to work with a brush to stand at the current height.

Now it is easy for Wang Jida to write an article to confuse right and wrong and tell a story!
(End of this chapter)