open sea

Chapter 619
The fifth year of Wanli came in a blink of an eye, and the plum blossoms of the Beiyang Military Mansion bloomed.

On the other side of the ocean, the Jesuits talked about the war in the Ming Dynasty. As the most barbarian among the barbarians that the Spaniards knew, Chen Mu didn't know what the other party said about the means of ruling them, but where his eyes focused was also Associated with the Jesuits.

"The Beiyang Military Mansion is not bad."

On the school field, Chen Lin, the governor of the Nanyang Military Mansion, was walking slowly with Chen Mu. He hadn't seen him for more than half a year. Chen Lin had a longer beard, and he was walking slowly on the horse, watching the rows of cavalry marching slowly in parallel on the school field. The cavalrymen raised their whips and said, "What are those wooden cavalry doing? The cavalry you trained?"

The cavalry formed four five-row phalanxes, and each formation consisted of cavalry with a general banner. The general banner and adjutants were arranged in front and back, each with a small banner, and the preacher, flag deputy, and banner officer were at the head of a row of cavalry. At , at the end of the team, and in the team, each holds a flag and wears a helmet gun with a different flag. There is also a drummer with a cavalry drum in the team, who slowly lined up on the grass with weapons to the beat of the drum.

But the formation is not an absolute square formation, it is more like a parallelogram square formation, and the first and deputy flag officers of each cavalry team are displaced backwards.

Their speed is very slow, but the formation is strict... There is no possibility of irregularity. In such a formation, every ordinary cavalry must have an officer repeating military orders along with the drumbeat.

In the [-] steps they were marching in, every [-] steps, there would be an instructor with Wu Bian sitting behind the table, watching the water leak and recording something when the cavalry passed by.

Three hundred steps away, there are rows of human-shaped targets with wooden poles, simulating the appearance of an infantry formation.

On the infantry field on the other side, the infantry and the artillery team are conducting joint training. The sound of the bird guns is mixed with the huge whistling sound of the field artillery from time to time. Amid the heavy shouts of the gun array, several other teams The cavalry walked slowly around the runway of the infantry field.

Following Chen Lin's question, several orders came from the cavalry marching in formation on the school grounds. The marching cavalry speeded up and spread out row by row. The cavalry remained in a stable formation. The spear did not fall, and some of the cavalry holding bird guns in the back row in the gap between the horses and the horses fired forward according to the order within a distance of a hundred steps.

The number of riding blunderbuss is not large, only [-] riding bludgeons are equipped in the two hundred cavalry teams trained together, and there are only [-] riding bludgeons that are fired alternately twice.

When the cavalry was out of gunpowder, the guns had been inserted into the hip pouches of the horses. Except for the cavalry in the front row holding long spears, all the cavalry behind them had changed to sabers. After the final speed-up, the formation gradually spread out in dozens of steps. It is a group of stormtroopers led by long spears and flag guns, until they fly at intervals of three to five steps, or smash into the nearest humanoid target.

After a short period of confusion, the cavalry regrouped again, changed their horizontal formations to attack sideways, and continued to retreat after three formation changes.

"Disciplinary training, it took us a long time to make the horses not afraid of the sound of the guns, but the horses were still afraid of the human-shaped targets holding sticks. In actual combat, both the speed of travel and the change of the battle situation were much faster than in training. It takes a long time to practice."

"However, this kind of training is feasible." Chen Mu and Chen Lin had already stopped by the school grounds to watch. He turned his head and raised four fingers to Chen Lin and said, "By this time, the general will return to Beijing to report on his duties. The generals on the Nine Frontiers and the cavalry department lecturer in the Xuanfu Lecture Hall, on the battlefield, the cavalry has an advantage over the infantry most of the time, and when the cavalry is against the cavalry, there are usually four possibilities for fighting."

"First, there is no charge at all. When two cavalry meet on the battlefield, one side breaks up during the charge. This is the most common situation. After all, people are not afraid of dead horses, but once they are defeated, they will be slaughtered by the enemy. In the early years, when the Nine Frontiers fought against the northern captives in field battles, they would always encounter this kind of situation, which is due to the lack of morale and discipline.”

Chen Lin led the cavalry to fight, but in the cavalry he led, he usually did not fight on horseback, but rode quickly to the preset battlefield in counter-insurgency wars, dismounted and formed an encirclement of the enemy.

So when Chen Mu said that he was very interested in these things, he nodded and asked, "What about the other three?"

"The second is that both sides will stop. This often happens in the battle of captive cavalry. Our army dismounts and shoots on foot or mounts and shoots. You can't hold a stalemate with the northern captives, but you will be defeated in a moment."

"Thirdly, the two armies spread out and fought with the wrong horses. This has never happened before in the cavalry of the Kingdom. Even for the northern captives, it only happens in small disputes. The fewer troops, the stronger the organization. Fighting Those who can maintain their formation in the army are usually only the small chiefs of the cavalry and the servants of some generals in the northern border. It will only appear when the two armies are evenly matched. Usually, if there is such an opportunity, it will become the first type."

"As for the last one, there is no formation to fight directly in one place. Our cavalry seldom has this possibility, but the melee between captive cavalry and captive cavalry is very easy to occur. It comes down to the reason - our cavalry The morale of the soldiers is usually lower than that of the northern captives, and fighting will often become the first possibility."

Speaking of this, Chen Mu curled his lips helplessly, and said: "Equal conditions, morale and discipline determine victory or defeat in a battle, the two sides are not considered elite, the captive knights have high spirits and low discipline, my knight spirit is not as good, and discipline is even lower, This is also impossible.”

"Morale is most affected by treatment, and discipline comes from training. For a long time, people have focused on infantry and neglected cavalry training. The cavalry on the battlefield has been reduced to auxiliary soldiers for sending messages and scouting, so that the founding of the country has become a famous food in the north. .”

Just as the cavalry drills were over, the riders still maintained a formation of three or five people after they were disbanded, leading the horses to the barracks at a fast or slow pace. The three-month training of gunners allowed them to deeply remember their obedience and military orders. Therefore, there are only a few punished who failed in training and a few hard-working people who have increased their training on the school grounds.

Chen Mu sat astride and introduced to Chen Lin one by one: "Hejian horse meat fire, Zhending horse broth, Beijing horse intestines, not to mention the local horse administration, even the war horses I bought at a high price from Kou City were all sold out." People sold 46 horses in three months, some of them were alive or dead, or they were deliberately raised to death when they were alive."

"What else is there?" Chen Lin's eyes widened, and he said, "Then you can't be shot?"

With a sullen face on his face, Chen Mu took a deep breath and said, "Let's not talk about it, brother is going north this time, there is something new in Nanyang, and it will make brother happy."

"Happy, just because I'm afraid you won't be happy." Chen Lin didn't study Ma Zheng's affairs carefully. He was indeed not familiar with Chen Mu's affairs in the north. He just took out a letter from his horse pouch and handed it to Chen Mu, saying: "The fruit of Puyi The letter between Governor A and Brother Canelo, they accused the pirates, your good man Lin Feng burned down the port of Goa a few months ago, and took hundreds of men, women, and children away."

"Following that, they robbed several ports to the north, broke the city and plundered the people, and the Mughals also sent envoys to Malacca, intending to form a joint fleet with the Nanyang military government to eliminate pirates and jointly manage the route."

Chen Lin carefully looked at Chen Mu's expression, wondering what role his righteous brother played in this chaos, and said: "The Western Minister Yin Yangshi sent people to the military guards several times, urging the formation of a fleet to suppress the bandits and send them to the Indians. Otherwise, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty will not be able to call on the ports of the various countries, and the trade will not be possible."

"Nanyang is worried that Lin Feng was pulled out by you, and has been dragging it all the time. Now I'm waiting for your word, can I suppress it?"

　Complaints—Jin Ganbao's "Sou Shen Ji" Volume [-]: "The common people have nothing to complain about, and all the blame lies with them."

　　
　
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