prosperous age

Chapter 64 Chapter 64

In order to adopt a formation, Wei Guangde spent a little brainpower.

As for the final formation, it was also something that Wei Guangde figured out by himself through hard memories and his understanding of the current equipment of the hundred households.

The final result is roughly a mixed military formation. The middle formation is mainly cold weapons. The hands are divided into two small formations of 30 people and arranged on both sides.

During the battle, the gunners can shoot directly from the two wings in five-stage strikes. This is also the so-called cross-fire method in Wei Guangde's memory. The gunners face the frontal enemy to form a cross-fire network. On both sides of the position, shoot obliquely towards the battlefield.

Weak opponents are not strong, and the gunner can move from both sides to shoot before the sword and shield hand. As for whether to use three-stage strike or five-stage strike, it depends on the battlefield situation. If the opponent cannot be defeated in this way, then wait for the enemy to attack. When approaching the front, move from both sides to the rear to re-form the phalanx of bird guns. If the opponent has cavalry, they will directly escape into the large formation to save their lives.

Because it was a blunderbuss, not a machine gun of later generations, Wei Guangde was not very confident at first, and he took his elder brother and cousin to conduct some deduction, and asked the soldiers to conduct many drills for many reasons that they couldn't figure out.

Fortunately, the Weisuo of the Ming Dynasty was actually a small society, and there were also craftsmen in the Bengshan Fort.

In order to make the deduction clear and accurate, Wei Guangde also asked the carpenter in the fort to make more than 200 simulated battle formations for soldiers.

The final result, of course, is still useful.

Although the bird gun has a certain degree of accuracy, it is also very limited. In addition to marksmanship, shooting birds also depends on luck.

However, after using crossfire, the slope is stronger than the front.

But at this time, Wei Guangde also discovered a fatal problem he proposed at the beginning, that is, the proportion of bird gunners is a bit high.

More than half of the soldiers in a hundred households are gunners, which makes the entire army formation look very thin and not compact, and there is a danger of collapse in close combat.

Of course, in fact, for a unit that is not determined to fight, even if all of them are cold weapons suitable for melee combat, they will definitely not win the battle.

Aiming at this problem, the solution given by Wei Guangde is of course to use a bayonet.

The birdcracks of this era did not have a bayonet design. After all, the craftsmanship is just like that, and the material is also problematic. The only thing Wei Guangde can do is to have a blacksmith make a batch of blunderbusses, that is, bayonets inserted from the barrel of the birdcrack. Spears are used for thrusting, but are not secure.

Of course, Wei Guangde used the famous domestic three-edged thorns for these batches of gun thorns. In fact, this is also related to the iron material in the guards. A little stronger.

Wei Guangde didn't know that pig iron is used to make weapons at the moment, which is hard but too brittle.

Of course, he doesn't know how to make steel, and he can't tell the difference between steel and pig iron. Naturally, he doesn't try to make steel, but he just thinks that the materials of this era are rubbish.

In the end, the big brother Wei Wencai snatched the war game that Wei Guangde asked someone to make. He and Wu Dong started to study it when they had nothing to do, and the image was three-dimensional.

Later, when I came up with some new things, I first called the little flags below to practice and show them, and then let them practice to see how the final effect is.

For these little flags with little culture, with the demonstration of war games, they can quickly understand what to do, which is very helpful for practice.

"By the way, do the other hundred households have horses? This time I go out, I think I should bring all the horses with me, and I can run if I can't beat them."

Wei Guangde suddenly said such a sentence, it is really that the father is too important to the current Wei Guangde, he does not want him to have the slightest mistake.

There are only two old horses in the Bengshan Hundred Households, which can be ridden for fun, but not on the battlefield.

Here at Qianhusuo, Wei Guangde only saw a few horses. Obviously, in the southern army, war horses are very scarce, and they are mainly used to convey military information.

"No, there are only a dozen horses in the thousand households, and there are two in your place, and none of the other hundred households."

This Wu Dong knew that if the two families hadn't been close, there would be no horses in Bengshanbao, and they would have to run on two legs if they had something to do.

"Are you so unconfident in the soldiers we train?"

Eldest brother Wei Wencai asked with a frown.

"Yes, but for safety's sake, it's better to have a horse."

Wei Guangde's answer was very straightforward, he also watched the training of those soldiers, so he naturally knew the situation.

But what Wei Guangde can't say is that it seems that in his memory, the Japanese pirates in the Jiajing Dynasty made too much trouble. This shows that in the battle against the Japanese pirates, without Qi Jiguang and that general Yu, there must be more defeats and fewer victories in the early stage.

Wei Guangde seems to have seen such a plot in his memory, saying that Qi Jiguang is a northerner who was sent to the south to suppress the Japanese pirates. As a result, when he saw the Japanese pirates in the first battle, Qi Jiguang shouted to kill and went up by himself. However, all the soldiers behind him ran back, and he almost died before leaving the army and died.

When I asked them to choose these two teams of soldiers, I actually did it according to Qi Jiguang's selection method that I saw. It doesn't matter if you choose honest soldiers and are stupid, but you must be honest and obey orders.

"Don't worry about this, my father and uncle must have horses, not to mention there is a team of family guards guarding them."

Wu Dong said.

"I'm worried that my father can't command the team well."

Wei Guangde still said.

"If you care about it, you will be chaotic."

Wei Wencai thought for a while before he said: "Our Jiujiang guard must be together, even if we do encounter Japanese pirates, there are more than a thousand people in our guard, so why not run away when the Japanese pirates see it?

Do you think those Japanese pirates are really three-headed and six-armed, invulnerable?That's to fool the common people outside. According to your words, no matter how skilled you are, you will be knocked down with one shot. "

Wei Guangde understood that the eldest brother and cousin should only be annoyed because they couldn't go out to have a look, and they were not worried about running into Japanese pirates at all.

Before that, the Japanese pirates did not fight the Ming army head-on.

But this time, Wei Guangde had already guessed from knowing that there were tens of thousands of Japanese pirates gathering, to the Japanese pirate rebellion in the Jiajing Dynasty known to later generations.

But there are some things that can't be said, just like what the elder brother said, the saying that the Japanese pirates dare not fight the official army head-on, was still valid before that.

When bandits meet officers and soldiers, their natural aura will be lower.

I just hope that my father and uncle will not encounter powerful Japanese pirates this time, as long as they can survive this time, they will know how powerful they are later.

Wei Guangde had already figured out that this time, some officers and soldiers of the guard station would be defeated in the face-to-face confrontation with the Japanese pirates, which would lead to a larger-scale Japanese rebellion.

(End of this chapter)