Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 40 The Staff System of the Ming Army【For collection, for further reading】

Chapter 40. The staff system of the Ming army
After setting up camp on the predetermined battlefield.

The Ming army continued to send scouts to investigate the opponent's situation.

After waiting for almost seven days.

The vanguard of the [-] army on the opposite side arrived one after another and set up camp ten kilometers outside the city of Pontianak.

However, the Ming army did not dispatch immediately.

Instead, stand still.

This wait is another three days.

It took a full ten days for the Qing-Borneo coalition forces to gather all the troops, and the [-] troops set up a huge camp.

Afterwards, Lin Guoliang, Liu Guangliang, and a Dutch Army major named Glop, the three of them rode horses with a few guards and came to observe the camp of the Ming army in person.

Unlike the scouts of the Ming army who had already transmitted the situation on the opposite side back to the command post almost in real time, the coalition forces had no scouts to use at all.

Before this, the two sides had already exchanged fire with small groups of troops.

But the scouts of the Ming army are all elite shooters of the Jaeger artillery company.

The Jaegerard was a unit equipped with large-caliber muskets and small-caliber mortars formed at the suggestion of Napoleon.

It is different from the queuing and shooting imagined by later generations.

In the European battlefield of this era, there were arms called "hunters".

Such soldiers are generally armed with rifled guns or larger caliber flintlocks.

It exists in the form of skirmishers. Before the line infantry of the two sides engages, use the longer-range and higher-precision muskets as much as possible to hunt down the enemy's officers and high-value targets—such as gunners.

And now with mortars.

Napoleon suggested mixing small-caliber mortars with rifled riflemen.

Small-caliber mortars are not heavy, and two soldiers can run around carrying the artillery, plus a few auxiliary soldiers carrying shells, a mortar squad of five people can rely on their feet on the battlefield Move around.

Although the range of the mortar is not as good as a rifled gun equipped by the Ming army.

But it has a much longer range than ordinary flintlock guns.

Therefore, in the tactics of the Ming army, the original hunting tactics became hunting artillery tactics.

Jagers armed with long-range rifled guns were combined with artillery squads armed with small-caliber cannons to form squads of ten.

The combat effectiveness of such a ten-man combat team is not comparable to those underworld thugs who have just picked up their guns.

Even without cavalry.

Before the two sides fought.

The Ming army already controlled the monopoly of information on the battlefield.

The scouts sent by the coalition forces could not compete with the Ming army's hunting artillery company.

After heavy casualties.

The coalition forces simply didn't send out any reconnaissance forces. They gathered a few big lumps like hedgehogs, and came to Pontianak regardless of their care.

So what's going on with the Ming army.

Lin Guoliang, Liu Qianxing and others did not know about it.

The Dutchman Gropp is the commander of the native army, so this time he also came to observe with Lin Guoliang and others.

This observation does not matter.

Gropp, who was observing the Ming army camp from a height with a telescope, frowned.

"Gentlemen, we are dealing with a real army."

Grapp said.

Tong Tong who was with him immediately translated Dutch into Chinese.

After hearing this, Liu Guangliang couldn't help complaining in his heart: "What you said, isn't my [-] Qing soldiers considered a real army?"

He turned to look at Lin Guoliang.

Seeing that Lin Guoliang also frowned.

"Master Lin, how is the situation of the traitor?"

"It's not easy to fight! Although this camp is small, it is well-organized. The ravines have convenient transportation, and all kinds of materials and personnel are in order. The combat power of this rebel is unknown for the time being, but at least this camp is well-established. Fighting is not easy!"

Lin Guoliang knows the goods.

After all, he is a fifth rank military officer.

If you have never eaten pork, at least you have seen pigs run.

"If such a camp is not attacked with heavy firepower, the casualties will be great."

Put down the binoculars in your hand, Gropp said.

"But we are not helpless. We have a lot of soldiers, so we can surround them first. If they don't fight, we will go around and attack Pontianak!"

Lin Guoliang clapped his hands and praised: "Second! This is the must-rescue in attacking the enemy in the book of war!! I will go back to reorganize the army, and the whole army will go to battle in the morning of tomorrow! With [-] to fight the Ming army with [-], this battle will be great. confident!"

Early the next morning.

It was just dawn.

The coalition army started to cook the rice, and carried big rice balls wrapped with dried salted fish in baskets to each camp. After the army ate the rice balls, the people from the Liu family came to encourage them and gave out rewards for going out. after.

The army went into battle with great vigor.

The situation with the natives is similar.

After learning that there were only 4000 people on the opposite side, the natives screamed and wanted to rush into Pontianak immediately.

Looted the base camp of "King of Pontianak" Luo Fangbo.

The Ming army is also ready.

The staple food of their meals is also rice, but the side dishes are much more abundant than the opposite side.

One meat, one dish, one soup.

The meat is whale meat.

There are whale groups in the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean on the west side of Malacca Haixia, and the whaling industry on the east side has not developed much, so there are a lot of whales.

The profits of the whaling team of Daohua Trading Company will soon be able to cover the investment.

The dish is a fried kelp shreds, and the soup is a seaweed egg drop soup, a pure natural seaweed soup, sprinkled with salt to supplement the salt.

It is a good delicacy.

After eating and drinking.

The news came that the whole army was out of the stronghold on the opposite side.

"All dispatched, it seems that the other party is very confident."

Napoleon smiled.

"Your Majesty, I suggest that we also dispatch the whole army, with the fourth and fifth battalions as the vanguard, three infantry companies plus a Jaeger artillery regiment as the front, and three infantry companies plus a Jaeger artillery regiment to detour to the left. , three infantry companies plus a Jaeger artillery regiment detoured to the right, and the sixth battalion and howitzer battalion were the reserves."

Zhu Daohua smiled and said, "Bonaparte, the command of this battle is in your hands, you don't have to ask me to agree to everything."

Napoleon nodded: "Understood!"

He turned to look at the staff officers of the Ming army.

"Carry out staff operations according to my order just now. The goal of this battle is to defeat the enemy head-on and detour the six infantry regiments and two hunting artillery companies to pursue and expand the results!"

"Follow the order!"

The staff members shouted in unison.

Afterwards, the staff department quickly decomposed and refined the orders, and each order was sent to each unit through the staff department and the messenger.

The staff departments of each army make more detailed combat task assignments according to the orders given by the higher-level staff departments and then hand them over to the military chief. After the military chief approves, the army begins to dispatch.

It's like a gear.

From top to bottom.

The entire army is under the command of the staff system.

It's running like a machine.

This is actually close to the structure and system of the modern army.

Under such a system.

The military can be a bit dull at times.

But one word stands out: Steady!

Zhu Daohua believes that things like war should not have too many risks.

Wouldn't it be nice to rely firmly on equipment, firepower, and even military strength to win a war?
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