There are no more than four points that affect the combat effectiveness of an army: logistics, armaments, training, and thinking.
As a battalion soldier, all logistics are uniformly allocated by the imperial court.
The weapons and equipment are also allocated in a unified manner. Now Chen Wang basically has no solution.
He had no means to spend money on ordnance, whether it was firearms or swords, or armor and artillery.
Once the private purchase of arms is discovered, it will be directly punished as a crime of treason.
Even if Chen Wang wanted to buy it, no one would dare to sell it.
The road to developing firearms and advancing science and technology has also been blocked. Privately manufacturing ordnance is also treason.
Moreover, Chen Wang does not have a fixed territory now, and he does not even have a single craftsman under his command.
All of this will have to wait until an actual separatist regime is formed in the future and we have enough strength and bargaining chips before we can do it.
If we want to build a new army that is different from this era, the first and most urgent thing to change is our thinking.
Serving as a soldier and getting paid and working for your life are the simplest and most basic thoughts of most people in this era, both at home and abroad.
Many people believe that by the end of the Ming Dynasty, China had begun to completely lag behind Europe.
But in fact, this concept is undoubtedly untenable.
They came up with all kinds of so-called materials and weapons to prove the advancement of Europe and the backwardness of the late Ming Dynasty.
But they kept silent about the performance of European armies at the same time.
Certain firearms in Europe have indeed taken the lead over the years of war, but they are far from the point where generational differences have formed.
The Ming Dynasty did not rest on its laurels. Craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry easily copied those firearms and began to use them in the military.
Many people think that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, both sides of the Ming and Qing Dynasties fought with each other with swords, spears, a small number of matchlock guns, and at most a few Franco cannons and tiger crouching 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 Dynasties had a total of 240,000 soldiers, and their firepower was far more intense than the European armies of the same period.
On the eve of entering the customs, the number of red cannons owned by the Qing army was approaching one hundred. As for the less powerful cannons such as general cannons, there were naturally not a few.
Firearms all over the world are exploding chambers at this time, and exploding chambers are not unique to the Ming Dynasty.
It was not until the end of the seventeenth century that the flintlock muskets, which were produced by the queuing-to-shooting tactic, 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, or even dominated by them, and its military system was still in a backward state.
France achieved the final victory in the Thirty Years' War and belonged to the victorious side.
It was precisely because of the Thirty Years' War that the French Army replaced Spain as the number one army in Europe.
However, when making statistics after the war, they found that the actual army they had was not even half of the army on paper, and it was extremely common to have empty pay.
The armament, number of people, and distribution of various materials are all uneven, the organization is chaotic, and the clothes are all kinds of.
There are not even uniform military uniforms, and the logistics support system is in a mess.
Soldiers were like locusts because they could not receive military pay. They often looted and looted. The lack of military discipline left them with no sense of loyalty at all.
They won the war not because they were stronger, but because their opponents were worse.
Later generations divided the modern army, the modern army, and the feudal army in different ways, and there are different opinions.
Weapons are a big influencing factor, especially when thermal weapons become more popular and more powerful in later generations.
History has proven that an army with the courage to fight to the death is simply vulnerable when there are generational differences in weapons.
But once the armaments of both sides are at the same level, the person who can determine the victory of the war becomes people.
During this period, both the Ming and Qing dynasties and European countries belonged to the category of the old army.
The difference between the weapons and equipment is not too big, and there is no generation difference.
The biggest factor that can affect the direction of the war is the courage and will of the soldiers.
In an era of alternating hot and cold weapons, the final word is the final melee confrontation.
Melee combat is the time when soldiers' courage and will are most tested.
In their minds, they only think about being paid as soldiers, and only thinking about the old army who plundered and made money. Their combat effectiveness is always limited.
The reason why the Qi family 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's because Qi Jiguang is well aware of this truth and how huge the impact of thoughts on soldiers is.
The victory song composed by Qi Jiguang was sung by everyone in the Qi family army, and gradually became the military song of his army.
The first two sentences are: "If all people are united, the mountains can be shaken. Only loyalty and righteousness can make a bull fight."
Finally, it ends with "Report to the emperor, come down to save the head of Guizhou. Kill all the Japanese slaves, and find a marquis."
The first sentence, "United as one," teaches soldiers that they should work together as one, and then the second sentence takes the loyalty that affects the people most deeply as the starting point.
Finally, it ends with serving the emperor, saving the people, finding a prince, and honoring the ancestors.
In a sense, Qi Jiajun is a new army with feelings of family and country, firm beliefs, and is ahead of an entire era.
The reason why he can fight bloody battles without retreating is that he can kill hundreds of people without hurting anyone himself.
It is precisely because they are different from this era and are a whole era ahead of others.
No army has ever defeated the Qi Army on the battlefield, even once.
Chen Wang stood up slowly, and his actions attracted the attention of everyone in the school.
Two thousand seven hundred people stood closely together, but they actually occupied a small space.
Chen Wang walked slowly to the front of the general's platform, where a simple speaking platform was newly built.
There were three simple loudspeakers tied with iron sheets on the podium to ensure that every word he said could be heard by everyone.
"I am your future camp general, I am Chen Wang."
Chen Wang spoke slowly, and his voice slowly sounded in everyone's ears as the loudspeaker expanded.
"I was born in Liaodong and have been a military family for generations. You may not know where Liaodong is, but that doesn't matter."
"I became a soldier in the first year of Chongzhen. I served as a soldier to eat food, just for a way to survive."
"I know very well that you are just like me, just looking for a way to survive..."
Chen Wang's eyes wandered on the faces of the recruits in the school grounds.
On the school field, most of the recruits' faces had changes in expression.
They really only want a way to survive.
Just to survive, they have exhausted their power.
They could have survived, albeit hard.
But as long as you find a way, you can always survive by gritting your teeth.
But the bandits came, burned down their simple houses, and robbed them of their food.
Forced them onto the battlefield with swords and guns...
