I want to be emperor

Chapter 95 A Different Rural Protection Camp (Part [-])
When he first led his army to the south, Chuang Potian was very high-spirited. He led an army of [-] to the south, engulfed thousands of young and strong along the way, and obtained a large amount of food.

He thought that if it continued like this, it would be safe for the army of their uncles and nephews who captured Lushan County to break through the scale of [-] people, and there would be no shortage of food.

As long as it can reach a scale of ten thousand people, it can be regarded as one of the main forces among the rebel armies from the east. I dare not say that it is on an equal footing with Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and others, but the status is not far behind there. Let's mix it up again Maybe it will turn the thirteen rebels into fourteen rebels.

But now, looking at the miserable situation like Chuang Po Tian is directly desperate.

This reminded him of the disastrous defeat he also suffered in Henan last year.

Last year he led an army of more than 8000 high-spirited troops. As a result, he encountered the main force of thousands of officers and soldiers, many of whom were frontier troops from Yulin.

For the main force of officers and soldiers with the upper army as the core, Chuang Potian at that time was undoubtedly defeated, and it was still a disastrous defeat!

Of the more than 8000 troops, only more than 2000 remained and fled in embarrassment.

However, compared to last year's disastrous defeat, Chuang Potian feels even more desperate now.

Because Chuang Potian felt that, let alone retreating with 2000 people, he probably wouldn't be able to take 200 people with him.

After a few hours of contact, Chuang Potian also realized that this was not an officer or soldier at all, but the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Battalion that he had despised before.

But this rural battalion is different from all the rebels under his influence. To say they are rebels is better to say they are officers and soldiers.

Even, these rural battalions were different from all the officers and soldiers he knew.

The enemy army in front of him is different from any officers and soldiers he has encountered before, not only the military uniforms are different, but also their tactics and tactics are very strange, which made Chuang Potian feel uncomfortable almost everywhere in the fight.

The opponent's strength is only about half of his own, but he suppressed him from the beginning to the end. His two counterattacks with organized forces failed to cause any losses to the opponent. On the contrary, his own counterattack suffered heavy losses.

These are obviously not officers and soldiers, but they are very similar to officers and soldiers, but they are different from officers and soldiers. The use of artillery is beyond Chuang Potian's imagination.

It's not that he hasn't seen artillery. On the contrary, he has seen a lot of them. There are many artillery in some friendly troops, and even a few captured light artillery under his own command, and there are even more officers and soldiers with artillery. .

But to be honest, he has never seen that army that can use artillery to such an extent. It just pulls the extremely heavy long-barreled artillery to the battlefield for field battles, and these are heavy artillery at a glance. Big guy, he can move freely on the battlefield, which almost subverts his cognition.

In addition to the strange use of artillery, the use of firearms by these rural battalions on the opposite side is also very strange. Their musketeers are not distributed in each team like the musketeers of other officers and soldiers, and cooperate with swords, shields, spearmen, etc. .

Instead, they gathered directly and continued to shoot and cause damage under the cover of spearmen. Moreover, their muskets were so lethal that they couldn't stop them even if they were wearing two layers of heavy armor. The same, not to mention the fire door guns such as the three-eyed blunderbuss.

And when many changes in cavalry, artillery, and infantry were combined, the tactics and tactics of the Baoxiangying were different from the contemporary Ming army officers and soldiers, and the rebel army was also different.

It was the first time Chuang Potian encountered this weird style of play, and before he even got used to it, he suffered heavy casualties and lost all morale.

Under such circumstances, Chuangpotian is expected to be able to hold on to the camp for at least ten days, but it was broken through in just over three hours. A large number of terrified bandits dropped their weapons, armor and everything that hindered their escape. , ran towards the rear.

At first glance, the mountains and plains are full of bandits and routs!

Blind Wang didn't pay any attention to these ordinary rout soldiers, and just stared at the rout soldiers riding horses from Chuang Potian.

After some chasing and fighting, Chuang Potian also followed in his nephew's footsteps and died in battle.

Before he died, Chuang Potian still couldn't figure out why he failed miserably for no reason.

And this battle, after the defeat of Chuang Potian's main force, has already entered the garbage time, even if Wang Xiazi followed up with cavalry to chase Chuang Potian, regardless of the outcome, it would not affect the outcome of this battle.

On the contrary, blind Wang himself was very happy to be able to catch up and kill Chuang Potian.

It was also within two days that he led the team to kill the fleeing leader of the bandit army twice in a row, and each time was smoother.

"This battle is easier than eating!" Blind Wang looked dejectedly at the large area of ​​Cui in front of him, and the bandit prisoners of war who were being guarded by the soldiers of the village security camp showed obvious joy on their faces.

Lin Dongsheng on the side also said: "No, I have fought many battles in my life, and I have fought a lot of thieves in the past few years, but although it was easy to fight thieves in the past, you have to be careful when fighting. If you are not careful, you will be run away by thieves!"

"But the two days of fighting can be said to be smooth sailing. The brothers haven't warmed up yet, and the bandits in front have already been defeated."

An Yongduo also stepped forward and said: "The fight is so smooth, apart from Brother Wang's cavalry, Zhang Laopao's artillery is also indispensable."

"Especially the two 100-jin cannons under Old Gunner Zhang, which are very powerful when fired. They can kill the bandits from a distance of more than [-] feet. With these two [-]-jin long cannons, The remaining ten light cannons can also play a greater role!"

"In the past when we were officers and soldiers, our friendly troops also brought a lot of artillery to fight, but they were all light artillery. The distance was too close, and they charged over directly, unlike the six hundred catties now. Long Pao, the other side has to run a long way to rush over."

"In the future, we still need to get more of these [-]-jin long cannons."

"That's right. There are more and more of these [-]-jin long cannons. With this kind of long cannons, the light cannons can exert greater power. Otherwise, the light cannons alone are useless."

When these people turned the topic to the artillery, Luo Zhixue was also talking to Zhang Malin: "This time your artillery sentries are doing very well, and it seems that the gunners are also looking good, you are ready, ready Four artillery groups, after returning this time, a new batch of [-]-jin long cannons should also be built."

Zhang Malin grinned and said: "General, don't worry, after these few actual battles, the gunners under my command are basically well-trained. It may be a little bit worse, but normal gunning is still not enough." questionable."

Luo Zhixue said: "By the way, there is one more thing I have to tell you. After the new batch of four long guns are deployed, the light guns under your hand will be separated and directly go down to the infantry. In the future, your artillery The whistle is specially equipped with a [-]-jin long cannon."

Zhang Malin was a little puzzled when he heard this: "Split out and go straight down to the infantry?"

Zhang Malin was puzzled. According to him, the cooperation between the artillery post and several infantry posts was quite good, and he didn't know why it was changed.

Luo Zhixue said: "When the battle is over, there will be a group of hundreds of recruits in Songshan Village who have completed their preliminary training. At that time, we will establish a battalion-level organization, and then directly arrange light artillery in this battalion-level organization. As infantry fire."

Although Luo Zhixue hasn't officially finalized and announced this matter, it's okay to say it now. Anyway, after packing up the battlefield and returning to Songjiazhuang, Luo Zhixue will officially implement the battalion-level organization.

In this regard, Luo Zhixue already has a complete case.

Originally, according to his plan, although there were some gains after this expedition, it was estimated that it would only be able to support the expansion of the army with a thousand soldiers.

But the actual harvest now is much more than expected. After this battle, just the harvest from sweeping all the countryside in Lushan County is enough for them to expand their army by 2000 people.

If you can still get some harvest in Nanzhao County in the future, then the food and other materials needed for subsequent maintenance will be almost the same.

In this way, in the next one or two months, the Baoxiangying will expand its troops to more than 3000 people. Naturally, such a large number of troops cannot be the same as it is now. Luo Zhixue will directly command the various outposts, and a higher level of organization must be established. for larger scale wars.

At the same time, the establishment of a larger battalion-level establishment is also for the subsequent continued expansion.

Judging from the current situation, Luo Zhixue felt that it was time for the Rural Protection Camp to expand further.

However, no matter whether it is going east or south, the Baoxiangying will inevitably encounter large-scale officers and soldiers or some kind of thieves.

This puts forward further requirements for the large-scale combat capability of the rural protection battalion.

At least, it must not be the same as it is now, let Luo Zhixue continue to personally command the sentry-level troops to fight, that is simply impossible to command.

For this reason, Luo Zhixue has been considering larger-scale battalion-level organization issues recently.

According to Luo Zhixue's vision, the follow-up battalion-level troops will be expanded on the basis of the existing fifth sentry organization, and will be organized into a scale of about 500 people, with musketeers and spearmen as the main arms, and line troops. Column combat is the main combat method, and it is equipped with an infantry battalion composed of traditional troops such as two or three light artillery pieces, dozens of swords, shields, hand archers, and so on.

When conducting large-scale field battles, three such infantry battalions are used to fight in formation, supplemented by 2000-jin field artillery and cavalry to form a brigade-level battle group of more than [-] people to fight.

Considering the size of the recruits being trained and the enemies they will face in the future, Luo Zhixue feels that at least six such infantry battalions, two field artillery posts, and two cavalry posts are needed to form two brigade-level independent battle groups to cooperate with each other. fight.

If the follow-up development is more smooth, then Luo Zhixue will also upgrade the expansion plan of the third battle group. As long as there are three such brigade-level battle groups, even if they are facing [-] or more main force Luo Zhixue Dare to fight!
However, the expansion of so many troops is also very difficult.

Guns, armor, artillery, cavalry and horses are all obstacles in front of Luo Zhixue's army expansion!
(End of this chapter)