I want to be emperor

The militia organization of the Great Chu Empire has a complete system. After all, it is a serious military armed organization and is directly under the management of the military.

The command of the militia belongs to the local garrison headquarters, and all prefectures, counties and towns within the jurisdiction will establish a complete militia system, and some large-scale government-run enterprises with many workers will also set up separate militia organizations.

The militia is organized into militia teams, battalions, regiments and even divisions according to regions and sizes.

This is still the domestic situation. If it is an overseas territory, militias are generally set up according to the settlements. For a single immigrant settlement like Songxi Village, a militia will be set up, and the proportion of militias will be very large. The attached weapons and equipment are also better, and even some large-scale militia units will have heavy weapons such as light artillery.

The commanders and key soldiers in the militia are usually retired soldiers. Therefore, in many local militia organizations, the commanders are usually retired lieutenant officers or even generals.

Some retired non-commissioned officers or soldiers served as captains of some grassroots militia teams.

The situation in Songxi Village belongs to a relatively typical overseas militia organization structure. The militia members account for a large proportion of the local young and old. It can even be said that every local young and old is a member of the militia.

At the same time, the militiamen in Songxi Village have a relatively unique North American feature, that is, almost everyone is equipped with a horse.

This is because the Great Chu Empire in North America has a small number of people but a lot of land, so horse farming is widely used in farming. Since horse farming is adopted, the number of agricultural horses in the immigrant group is relatively large.

Although they are all working horses, not real war horses, they can be used for maneuvering on horseback, no matter how bad they are for carrying supplies.

This has also led to a considerable proportion of mounted infantry among the militias in North America.

The militiamen gathered in the square basically came with horses like Zhao Gantong, and some even brought two horses instead of one.

The retired non-commissioned officer above who was giving a mobilization speech, the current Songxi village patrol police, and Wu Jintang, the captain of the Songxi village soldier team, had three horses behind them.

One of the horses only had a saddle on its back and did not carry other things, but the other two carried a lot of supplies.

In addition to Wu Jintang's personal combat logistics supplies, two large ammunition boxes were carried on the horse's back, which were filled with caps and paper-wrapped ammunition, which belonged to the logistics supplies of the militia.

Just these two boxes of flash caps and paper-wrapped ammunition are enough for their small team to fight continuously for a long time.

After all, the rate of fire of front-loading muskets these days is very low. For an ordinary battle, the per capita bullet consumption is only about ten rounds, and for intense and long-lasting battles, it only consumes twenty or thirty rounds of bullets at most.

In the series of battles launched by the Chu army in India, which lasted for half a year, the combat troops with tens of thousands of people actually consumed only [-] rounds of bullets per capita...

Of course, this bullet consumption is the per capita consumption of the troops participating in the battle. The actual situation is that the soldiers on the front line will continue to fire, and the bullet consumption may reach dozens or even hundreds of rounds, but the soldiers in the rear have not fired a single shot.

Average data!
You can't take the average number to measure the actual firing data of frontline soldiers.

In the Battle of Mumbai, India, soldiers from a platoon of the Chu Army fired an average of 130 bullets in the battle that day.

This is the most bullets fired in a single battle among countless battles over the years since the founding of the Great Chu Empire. This is almost the limit data.

After the battle, one of these dozens of soldiers was counted as one the next day. They couldn’t even lift their right hands. It took them a while to recover... because they were continuously impacted by the recoil of their guns during the continuous combat. , resulting in a shoulder injury.

The recoil of musket-loading muskets these days is very large, but don’t think that muskets have less recoil and bullet kinetic energy. In fact, they are not much different from modern rifles of later generations.

The muzzle kinetic energy of the 21-year-style smoothbore gun is more than 800 joules. The well-known AK47 in later generations is only more than 900 joules, and other automatic rifles are generally more than 1000 joules.

By the way, by the way, the kinetic energy of the arrow in the UK sky is only [-] to [-] joules, and other types of bows and arrows of the same period are even worse than this data.

The reason why the Chu army's muskets export so much kinetic energy is to ensure that they can penetrate the enemy's armor within an effective range of [-] meters.

The army these days is still generally equipped with armor. The plate armor exported by the Great Chu Empire is very popular. At the same time, the Chu army itself is still equipped with a large number of light plate armor.

If the musket is not powerful enough to penetrate the plate armor, of course it won't work.

All the rifles in the Chu Army can penetrate 100 mm thick low-carbon steel within a range of [-] meters. This is also the data of the export plate armor with the best performance in the export plate armor. Within a range of [-] meters, penetrate all the plate armor exported by yourself!

This is to ensure the power, so the recoil is naturally not small. In addition, the state of Chu has not developed any technology to reduce the recoil in firearms these days, let alone ergonomics, which makes the recoil of the firearm even more unbearable.

Take the 21-year-style flash cap percussion rifle as an example. If hundreds of bullets are fired continuously, the soldier's shoulder will become bruised and blackened due to the recoil, and there will be severe pain.

And the arm on the side of the shoulder bearing the recoil may not even be able to lift!
Based on this, it can be said that more than 100 rounds of bullets are basically the limit of the soldiers' continuous shooting. If there are more, they will not be able to shoot...they will have to be scrapped after hitting the shoulder.

Unlike those automatic rifles of the later generations, one shuttle is used for [-] rounds of ammunition, and a few shuttles are used for hundreds of bullets to be used up. If you fire a few more shuttles, you can get off work.

Because the bullets are all gone!

To some extent, this is also an advantage of the front-mounted flash hider: the consumption of bullets is extremely small!

If you switch to a breech-loading rifle with an extremely fast rate of fire, easy loading and shooting, and a longer effective range, the average bullet consumption will at least double several times.

Zhao Gantong himself also brought a lot of bullets, a total of [-] rounds of flash caps and paper bags. In addition to the bullet box on the belt around his waist, there were also two boxes of bullets in the armed backpack on the north.

These bullets are the same as the 21-year-style flash cap percussion rifle in his hand, but they belong to the weapons and equipment of the militia and are directly provided by the military, so Zhao Gantong does not need to pay for them.

Not only do you not need to bring your own rifle bullets, but you don’t even need to bring bullets for your own revolver smoothbore pistol. The militia has [-]mm pistol paper-packed ammunition and flash caps, which are also free of charge. of.

However, these free bullets cannot be used casually. The militia distributes guns and ammunition to individuals, just for you to keep them and use them when necessary. If you use them during non-group battles, you must explain the situation, not for you to use them casually. of.

Of course, it doesn’t matter if you don’t explain the situation, you can buy bullets out of your own pocket to make up for it.

This is also limited to some overseas territories.

If it is in the domestic mainland or overseas territories with good law and order, the guns and bullets in the militia are separated and stored centrally, which is not something you can use if you want.

However, in some overseas territories facing indigenous attacks, in order to allow the people to have sufficient self-protection capabilities, guns and ammunition are directly distributed to the militias, and the militias are allowed to keep them by themselves.

In fact, even if they are not allotted, these militiamen will buy guns and ammunition for their own safety and keep them at home, and they will take them with them when they go out.

To a certain extent, the guns and ammunition distributed in the militia can be regarded as a kind of welfare for the militia... Let the militia save some money and don't have to buy guns and ammunition by themselves.

After the assembly of a large group of young and strong militiamen in Songxi Village, Wu Jintang, the captain of the militia, ordered the fifth and sixth teams of the militia to stay in the village.

He himself attacked with four teams.

There are a total of 76 militiamen in Songxi Village. Although the number is a little small, they are still divided into three parts according to the needs of line tactics, and they are organized into the first row, second row, and third row to carry out combat tasks. When the time comes, you can use these three platoons as the basis to carry out standard three-row horizontal formation tactics.

At the same time, it is also possible to split the third row and add it to the first and second rows, and implement two rows of horizontal formation tactics to increase the density of firepower.

Well, with the fire cap firing rifle equipped, the Chu army is generally more inclined to adopt two horizontal formation tactics, using more intensive firepower to crush the enemy.

Below the platoon in the militia organization, there are often small teams ranging from a dozen people, the exact number of which depends on the number of troops in the militia.

Of course, in some militia units with fewer numbers, there may often be three squads directly under their control.

But no matter whether you have more than 100 people or dozens of people, you have to form three platoons or three teams directly, and implement the "one-three system".

That is, an army at the lowest level requires three platoons or squads of equal numbers.

This is to ensure that line tactics can be implemented.

The militia team in Songxi Village is organized into three platoons. Because of the small number of people, there are only two teams in each platoon, ranging from a dozen people.

Zhao Gantong was incorporated into the third team, which belonged to the second row of combat order. He followed the other militiamen in the same team, led the horse and followed Wu Jintang in front, and began to head out of the village.

The four squads of the Songxi village militia, with a total of about 50 people, mostly led the horses, and there were a few militiamen with good riding skills who acted as sentries in the front.

There are a few people behind the horse pulling a 65mm light field gun.

The militia is also an army, and it can also be equipped with artillery. Songxi Village is not too far away from the indigenous control area, and it is easy to be attacked by the indigenous people. Therefore, the superiors brought an old 65mm light field gun to Songxi Village. .

This thing is quite old. The old model produced by Chengshun in 13 years has been 18 years ago. It is older than many young militiamen in the militia...there are even several [-]-year-olds in the militia What about the guy.

Don't think that these little guys are young. People in Chu country are generally precocious these days, and a lot of them get married at the age of fourteen or five. After all, the definition of an adult in the Great Chu Empire is only sixteen years old...so ten At the age of four or five, for many Chu people, especially the low-level people, they are considered half adults.

Especially in places like overseas territories, not to mention fourteen or five-year-old half-grown boys fighting with guns, among the old and weak women and children staying behind in Songxi Village, many eleven- and twelve-year-old kids have already fought with guns. They are alert and ready for war, and there are many girls among them.

Compared with these young militiamen, this 65mm light field gun is really an old guy.

More than ten years ago, when the gun was in its youth, it was brought to the Americas by the army to fight. After many years of service and countless battles.

Last year, it finally withdrew from the front-line combat sequence and was replaced by the advanced new [-]mm field gun supplemented by the country. It was finally included in the militia equipment and distributed to Songxi Village to continue to exert its residual heat.

Although it is already an old guy, and its performance is old and backward, its power is already quite impressive, at least it is no problem to deal with those unprofessional natives.

Two horses dragged the light field gun and walked directly on the dirt road outside the village. Soon the militia team left the dirt road near the village and walked directly onto the weedy field.

The 65mm light field gun continued to follow the militiamen. Although the road was uneven, so that the speed of the advance was reduced a lot, it was still able to walk.

This is why the Great Chu Empire Army loves the 65mm field gun so much!

This light artillery is light enough to go anywhere!
In this plain terrain, even if there is no road, it can be directly pulled by horses.

At most, when encountering some potholes, let the artillerymen push them for a while.

Zhao Gantong followed the group of people and marched all the way, and it didn't take long to see the people in front stop, and he stopped immediately.

After another minute or so, I heard the team leader in front get on his horse and yell at the same time: "The third team, get on your horse and follow me!"
Even though he didn't know what happened ahead, he got on his horse like everyone else, and moved closer to the team leader in front of him.

After getting closer, at this time he saw that there was a large group of people in the north of the gentle hill ahead!

It was a group of a few people wearing clothes, but more people only wore simple fur, with various feathers, and dark brown skinned indigenous people. There were 500 of these indigenous people, most of whom held simple spears, bows and arrows. Cold weapons, but there are quite a few people holding matchlock guns.

Most of them walked, and half of them rode horses.

Looking at it this way, Zhao Gantong frowned slightly: Nima, the weapons and equipment and horses of these indigenous people are not bad!
Zhao Gantong looked over from a distance and couldn't tell where these aborigines came from, but Wu Jintang, the captain of the militia at the front, knew that this was an aboriginal tribe about [-] to [-] kilometers northwest of their settlement.

The Chu people call it the Shanghe Tribe. It doesn't matter whether the local aborigines agree with the name, anyway, the Chu people call it that.

Moreover, Wu Jintang also knew that the arquebus guns in the hands of these natives were sold by the Chu people themselves...

Even these horses, a considerable part of them were bred from the horses obtained from the Chu people.

To a certain extent, it was the Chu people who single-handedly trained the Shanghe tribe, which was still in the state of ignorant primitive people, to a modern tribe with a large number of cold weapons and some matchlock guns.

Because the Chu people had just arrived in the Jinshan area, the number was very small, and at the same time, they were facing the continuous northward expansion of the Spaniards. In order to stabilize the control of this area, it was also to avoid direct armed conflicts with the Spaniards and eventually lead to war.

The Dongyang Trading Company chose to support several local indigenous tribes and use the local tribes to resist the Spanish expansion to the north.

The effect of this strategy is obvious. With the support of the Chu people, especially with the export of a large number of weapons and equipment, the combat power of the indigenous tribes in the Jinshan area soared rapidly, and they really resisted the Spanish expansion to the north.

But this also brought about some subsequent negative effects, that is, when the Chu people themselves expanded inland, especially towards the bottom of the Golden Valley, these indigenous tribes supported by the Chu people in the past became Became the enemy of the Chu people themselves.

And there are no advanced weapons, but there is no shortage of matchlock guns, spears and swords.

No, Songxi Village has now become their target.

Seeing this scene, Wu Jintang couldn't help cursing: Damn Dongyang Company!