Go back to the Ming Dynasty to be a thousand households

Chapter 68 Returning Home Point General Military Parade ([-])

June 1590, 8 AD.early morning.

The Wuzhai Fort Competition Field is located about 300 meters outside the fort. The martial arts hall, watchtower, and teaching field are integrated in the field. Usually, this is the place for the autumn exercises of the Wuzhai Fort Guards every year.

However, the guards have been corrupted in recent years. Except for some members of the Huang family who will come to practice in Wuzhai Fort, the sergeants in the fort usually have a rare opportunity to come here. For most of the year, it has become a playground for children in Wuzhaibao.

But today, all the children playing here have been driven away, because Master Huang Laifu Qianhu is going to raise the flag here today and parade the army.

Huang Laifu's time was about [-]:[-] in the morning, and the applause and drummers on the field were already blowing loudly. Qing Dao sergeants, holding large flags, cleared the way in front. Huang Laifu was wearing an iron leaf armor, surrounded by servants, Riding a horse, holding the reins in his hand, and carrying a knife bag on his waist, he entered the arena from the horse path in high spirits.

Entering the Martial Arts Hall, the secretary of the banner, the drummer, the flag drummer, etc., have already been waiting outside the Martial Arts Hall. Hundreds of households have already cleaned up their uniforms and stood aside, waiting for Huang Laifu to raise his account.

When Huang Laifu walked in, everyone knelt down on one knee and saluted Huang Laifu with clasped fists. Huang Laifu nodded slightly and sat down in the middle.The officers stood up and sat down on the east and west walls.

As soon as Huang Laifu sat down, the leaves of his armor clattered. Today he wore a six-petal iron helmet, a mosaic knife, and a set of Ming armor handed down from the Huang family ancestors. It was made of pure iron and weighed 57 Fortunately, Huang Laifu has a strong body, so he feels nothing when he wears it.If it were someone else, this armor alone would be unbearable.

Daming's armor has always been heavy, often weighing 50 or 60 catties. Nine years after Hongzhi, Daming reformed the armor to reduce the weight, but a pair of armor still generally weighed 35 catties.After the reign of Emperor Hongzhi, the six-petal helmets worn by the generals of the guards were also replaced by eight-petal helmets.However, due to ancestral reasons, Huang Laifu is still wearing a 57-jin armor and a six-petal iron helmet on his head.

Today is the military parade of adults from thousands of households, so naturally everyone is required to wear armor.But in Wuzhai Fort, apart from Huang Laifu, there were only a few hundreds of officers with armor on their bodies, and even the general banners and small banners didn't have armor, let alone ordinary banner troops.

At this time, He Chaoxun, Deputy Qianhu and several hundred households below are all wearing scarlet target hobs, letter armor, or blue cloth sash armor, and leather helmets on their heads. They are all much lower than Huang Laifu.In addition, several general flags also wore red patent leather helmets on their heads, and some iron mesh skirts and mesh pants on their bodies.

As for the ordinary flag soldiers on the field, all of them had no armor, and they all wore a kind of fat jacket clothing of Ming Dynasty sergeants.The fat jacket is knee-length, with narrow sleeves, cotton inside, and red outside.This kind of military uniform is known scientifically as the Yuanyang battle jacket, and its nickname is the red fat jacket.In addition to the red fat jacket, the sergeants also wore a pair of military shoes called fat jacket pants and shoes. These military shoes were usually given a pair for the first three years.

After Huang Laifu gave his lecture, the drill began. In addition to Sun Gui, Han Ming, the governors, He Chaoxun and He Fuqian, there were also some servants of the Huang family standing at the head of the field, and all the households returned to the field. , Urging his sergeants to line up.

The flag soldiers in the field are basically working in the various farms of Wuzhai Fort. These soldiers, with sufficient food and hard work on the farms in Wuzhai Fort, are now in better physical condition than they were when they were young. Formerly, one was in the sky and the other was on the ground.Moreover, their discipline is better than before in the daily collective labor on the farm.From hard times to good times, all these flag soldiers are grateful to Huang Laifu.

But to be honest, Huang Laifu found that there were many people here, and it was okay for them to work on the farm, but they couldn't be soldiers.It's been a long time, and they are still noisy below, unable to form a formation.In addition, although they are working on the farm, they can eat and drink enough now, but since Huang Laifu had no replacements before, except for the servants of the Huang family, the military uniforms and weapons of the Wuzhaibao soldiers have never been changed, and they look shabby. He doesn't look like a soldier at all.

But it’s no wonder that they are the main force fighting outside now are the battalions of the towns. The guards are just guarding the city and stationing the fields. The messy situation is understandable.

After finally waiting for these sergeants to complete their formation, Huang Laifu looked down from the martial arts hall and saw flags of all colors fluttering in the arena, including blue flags, red flags, yellow flags, black flags, etc., which dazzled him.At this time, most of the barracks exercises in Ming Dynasty were the ancient eight formations, or the three-fold formation and the four-door square camp method.After the rise of Qi Jiguang's military training method, many border town generals also switched to Qi's military training method.However, most of the guards still follow the ancient formation, and the same is true for Wuzhai Fort.

The rehearsal started, and the drums were beating, the flags were flying, and the sergeants below were walking around, mingling, shouting loudly, but it was really nice, Huang Laifu's head was as big as a bucket, and this was He Chaoxun and He Fuqian The result of the household's hard work.

In the entire Wuzhai Fort, except for He Chaoxun and Vice Qianwai, all the general banners of the hundred households knew a little about the use of golden drum instruments, but they didn't know anything about the various flags.What everyone can do is to train themselves to be strong, and then lead a team of servants to charge forward.If these people are allowed to direct, it will be difficult for them.

Looking at the situation below, He Fuqianhu stood proudly beside Huang Laifu, his face was full of color. In terms of performance, it is already very good to be able to be so good-looking.To be honest, the current Wuzhaibao sergeants, at least in terms of discipline and physical fitness, are considered pretty good among the guards.

Huang Laifu massaged the handle of the knife with his hands, and remained calm. The situation in front of him was obviously far from what he expected in his heart.His future army will not only need to be physically strong, it will advance with a bang when it goes into battle, and disperse with a bang when it retreats, nor will it only be used to defend the city.The scene of the sergeant's drill below is chaotic, the flags are flying, and they are walking around.This situation is just a typical mob.

Huang Laifu thought deeply, it seems that the arrangement of the Wuzhaibao Banner Army is going to be overthrown and restarted.

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After letting the generals disperse, it is a fact to retrain troops. After returning to Qianhuzhai, what Huang Laifu has been thinking about is which method of military training he should choose.Huang Laifu came from a later generation, so he has been influenced by his ears and eyes. Naturally, he has heard a little about ancient Chinese and foreign military training methods. In his computer, there are also some modern Chinese and foreign military training methods.

After careful consideration, Huang Laifu finally had two choices: military training record and Spanish phalanx.

In modern China and abroad, there are two well-known military training methods, one is the actual record of military training by General Qi Jiguang in the Ming Dynasty, and the other is the Spanish phalanx in the West.Both of these can be said to be powerful in the world. The Spanish phalanx had no rivals in the West throughout the 16th century to the middle of the 17th century.

Similarly, the contemporary Qi Jiguang had no rivals in the entire East.In the era when Qi Jiguang led the army, he often won as many as possible, but his own casualties were extremely small. For example, in the 40th year of Jiajing's Huajie Battle, Qi's army killed more than 20 Japanese pirates, and his own casualties were only three.In the Battle of Taizhou, Qi's army beheaded more than [-] Japanese pirates, with less than [-] of their own casualties.Even in the north, when facing Tatar iron cavalry, the more often win the less, it can be said that the winner is invincible.

These two methods are good training methods, but which one is more suitable for you?In the end, Huang Laifu decided to focus on actual military training.The main reason is that this method is more suitable for the situation of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. After all, the good methods of the Qi family army are here, and the good effects are also here.After the Spanish phalanx was brought in, after the training, will it become something with Chinese characteristics, and finally change the taste and become counterproductive?

The sharpening of ideological conflicts is one aspect, and on the other hand, it is also the limitation of realistic conditions that determines that Huang Laifu has to choose the actual military training first.What conditions?It is firearms. The Spanish phalanx needs a lot of firearms and artillery, which Huang Laifu does not have at present.

Daming's firearms at this time, firstly, many of them were of poor quality, and secondly, the country's management was relatively strict.In the fifth year of Xuande, there was an imperial edict: "The gods are important to the country. In Biandunbao, give them as much as possible to strengthen the army, and don't give them lightly." Xuanfu Monolith.The emperor used firearms to make them outside, fearing that the rumors would leak out, so he ordered them to stop.It was not until the 36th year of Jiajing that Zhunji Town was ordered to make quick guns, lead bullets and gunpowder for the host and guest officers and soldiers.In general, the production of firearms in the capital guards must be approved by the imperial court, and only some "Jiang" brand handle muzzles are made.Words such as "Sheng", "Tianwei", and "Lie" can only be made by Bingzhanju.

The management of firearms is so strict and the quality is not good, where did Huang Laifu go to find so many good firearms all at once?So the Spanish phalanx can only step aside for now.

In fact, according to Huang Laifu, in the current era, as long as Qi Jiguang's military training methods are strictly followed, discipline is strict, food and grass are sufficient, and weapons are excellent, in this eastern world, it is enough to be invincible.

Of course, some of the good things in the army in modern and later generations can be gradually improved and incorporated in the war after you have trained and become proficient in the future.For now, let's strictly follow Qi Jiguang's military training method.

There is a saying that learn to walk first, then run, and then fly after you know how to run.

(End of this chapter)