The wind rises at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 90 Change
There are nothing more than four points that affect the combat power of an army, logistics, armaments, training, and ideology.

As a battalion soldier, all logistics are allocated by the imperial court.

Armaments are also allocated uniformly, and now Chen Wang basically has no way to solve it.

He has no way to spend money to buy ordnance, whether it is firearms or swords, or armor and artillery.

As long as the private purchase of arms is found out, it will be punished directly as the crime of treason.

Even if Chen Wang wanted to buy it, no one would dare to sell it.

The road of developing firearms and improving technology has also been blocked. Privately manufacturing ordnance is also treason.

And now Chen Wang didn't have a fixed site, and he didn't even have a single craftsman under him.

All of this can only be done when an actual separatist regime is formed in the future and when there is enough strength and bargaining chips.

If we want to build a new army that is different from this era, then the first and most urgent thing to change is the thinking.

Serving as a soldier for pay, taking money to work hard, this is the most simple and basic thinking of most people in this era, regardless of China or foreign countries.

Many people think that by the end of the Ming Dynasty, it had already begun to lag behind Europe in an all-round way.

But in fact, this concept is undoubtedly unstable.

They took out all kinds of so-called materials and weapons to prove that Europe was advanced and the late Ming was backward.

But he kept silent about the performance of the European army at the same time.

Some firearms in Europe are indeed leading in the war for many years, but they are far from the point of forming a generation gap.

The Ming Dynasty did not rest on its laurels either. The craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry easily imitated those firearms and began to use them in the army.

Many people think that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming and Qing Dynasties fought each other with swords and long spears, a small amount of matchlock guns, and at most a few Francois cannons and tiger squat cannons.

In fact, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, both the Ming and Qing Dynasties installed firearms and used artillery on a large scale.

In the Songjin battle, the Ming and Qing sides had a total of 24 soldiers, and their firepower was far superior to that of the European army at the same time.

On the eve of entering the customs, the number of red-clothed cannons owned by the Qing army was approaching a hundred, and there were naturally not a few artillery pieces such as the less powerful General Cannon.

Firearms all over the world are exploding at this time, and exploding the chamber is not a patent exclusively owned by the Ming Dynasty.

It was not until the end of the seventeenth century that the flintlock guns that produced the queuing shooting tactics began to be installed on a large scale in Europe.

During this period, Europe was still in the midst of the Thirty Years War, and the whole of Europe was still in chaos.

During the late Ming Dynasty, the European army was still filled with a large number of mercenaries, and even dominated by them, and its military system was still in a backward state.

France won the final victory in the Thirty Years' War and belonged to the winning side.

It was precisely because of the 30 Years War that the French Army replaced Spain as the number one Army in Europe.

But when they counted after the war, they found that the army they actually owned was not even half of the army on paper, and it was extremely common to be empty-handed.

Armaments, number of people, and distribution of various materials are all uneven, the organization is chaotic, and the clothes are varied.

There is not even a unified military uniform, and the logistics support system is even more messed up.

Soldiers are like locusts because they don't receive military pay, and they often plunder wantonly. The corruption of military discipline makes them have no sense of loyalty at all.

They won wars not because they were stronger, but because their opponents were worse.

The modern army, the modern army, and the feudal army divided by later generations have different methods and different opinions.

Weapons are a big influencing factor, especially when hot weapons are popularized and more powerful in later generations.

History has proved that an army with the courage to die is vulnerable to a single blow when there are generations of weapons.

But once the armaments of both sides are at the same level, the one who can decide the victory of the war becomes the people.

During this period, both the Ming and Qing Dynasties and European countries belonged to the category of the old army.

The difference between armaments is not too big, and there is no generational difference.

The biggest factor that can affect the direction of the battle is the courage and will of the soldiers.

In the era of alternating hot and cold weapons, it is the final melee confrontation that can finally be finalized.

The melee confrontation is the time when the courage and will of the soldiers are most tested.

In my mind, I only think about being a soldier and getting paid, and I only think about looting and getting rich from the old army. Their combat effectiveness is always limited.

The reason why Qi's army is strong is not only because of Qi Jiguang's clear rewards and punishments, but also because of his views on military affairs and the use of firearms.

It is because Qi Jiguang is well versed in this truth, and knows how great the influence of thought on soldiers is.

The triumphant song made by Qi Jiguang was sung by all members of the Qi family army, and gradually became the military song of his army.

The first two sentences are: "When all people are united, the mountains can be shaken. But loyalty and righteousness are the only way to fight bullfights."

Finally, "report to the emperor, and save the head of Guizhou. Kill all the Japanese slaves, and find a lord." as the end.

The first sentence is all of one mind, teaching the soldiers to work together with one heart, and the second sentence starts with the loyalty that affects the deepest among the people.

In the end, it ends with serving the emperor and saving the people, finding the princes, and honoring the ancestors.

In a sense, the Qi family army is a new army with family and country feelings, firm beliefs, and a whole era ahead.

The reason why he was able to fight bloody battles without retreating was that he was able to kill hundreds of people without hurting a single person.

It is precisely because they are different from this era and are ahead of others by an entire era.

No army has ever defeated Qi's army head-on on the battlefield, not even once.

Chen Wang stood up slowly, and his actions also attracted the attention of everyone in the school grounds.

Two thousand, 700 people stood closely together, but the space actually wasn't that big.

Chen Wang walked slowly to the front of the platform, where a simple podium was newly built.

There are three simple loudspeakers bound with iron sheets on the podium to ensure that every word he speaks can be heard by everyone.

"I am your future battalion commander, and I am Chen Wang."

Chen Wang spoke slowly, and his voice slowly rang in everyone's ears as the loudspeaker expanded.

"I was born in Liaodong, a military family for generations. You may not know where Liaodong is, but it doesn't matter."

"I served as a soldier in the first year of Chongzhen, and served as a soldier to eat food, just to survive."

"I know very well that you are just like me, just looking for a way to survive..."

Chen Wang's eyes wandered over the faces of the recruits in the school grounds.

On the school field, most of the recruits' faces changed in expression.

They really only want a way to survive.

Just by surviving, they have exhausted their power.

They could have survived, albeit hard.

But as long as you think of a way, you can always live by gritting your teeth.

But those bandits came and burned down their humble houses and robbed them of food.

Holding knives and guns and forcing them onto the battlefield...

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