careful?
Tian Xiucai, is it true that a skilled person is bold and doesn’t know what caution means?
Before he joined the army, he was familiar with the Chinese military books of the past dynasties. Later, he learned the "Morris Art of War" from General Shi Yang, and also created the "Bow and Spear Combination Formation". Even His Royal Highness the Prince praised him as a military wizard. He was also promoted to a higher level and made the leader of the 11th Regiment!
Does a great military strategist like him need to be careful when fighting? If you really have to be careful, then why are you out here? Isn't it enough to just hold your position?
Therefore, after receiving Wang Mazi's military order, Tian Xiucai immediately transferred two battalions originally belonging to the 11th Regiment from the reserve team (a total of three battalions) to form two battalion-level marching columns, with spearmen and bows and arrows. With his hand as the guide, he drove out in a swaggering manner.
Of course, Tian Xiucai's "adventure" also has capital!
Because his 11th Regiment was the elite among the various regiments to overcome difficulties, it was established early and had better sources of troops. In particular, a considerable number of the archers in the 11th Regiment were recruited from Shandong and Huaixi, and were already capable of archery. After Tian Xiucai took office in the 11th Regiment, in order to realize his "bow and gun formation", he also tried every means to obtain a batch of Kaiyuan bows and lath armor, and equipped each battalion with 80 armored archers.
Cao Riling from Weihaiwei, Shandong Province, was an armored archer in the 11th Regiment. He was originally a servant commanded by the Weihaiwei family, and he joined the new army to overcome the difficulties together with the young master of the master's family. The young master of the master's family joined the army and became an official. He is not bad either, because he followed earlier, became a hero in overcoming difficulties, and was allocated 50 acres of paddy fields in Yingtian Mansion. He also received a small piece of homestead in Nanjing City, and also received a settlement allowance - which was used to give him It’s a lot of money to build a house, get a wife, and bring my mother and father from Weihaiwei to Nanjing to settle down.
At the beginning of the year, I got a month's leave and went to Shandong to marry a girl from a poor family. The sixteen-year-old girl married him, a vulgar uncle in his thirties. I didn't even think about it in the past. Dare to think!
After begging for a wife, he also brought his elderly parents to Nanjing and placed them in a newly built house under the care of his pregnant wife.
And he himself sold off his leave and returned to the camp to work for Prince Zhu - he couldn't survive without selling his life! His parents, wife and children are all in their hands, and everything he has now was given by Zhu Cihong!
If he wants to be ungrateful, if the prince turns against him, he can take everything away...
So after returning from leave, he didn't dare to slack off for even a moment. Not only did he have to practice formation, but he also had to practice archery hard.
Although Zhu Cixiang had long decided to take the route of using firecrackers, this does not mean that there is no need to consider the issue of fighting since there are no troops with firecrackers available for the time being.
The officers and soldiers of these troops also receive military pay, land, and houses (homesteads). Why don't they suffer the hardships of 997? So they also have to prepare for war. Without the fire gun, there would be no way to play the fire gun.
These troops who are not equipped with muskets are also based on battalions. A battalion has two lance companies, one sword company, and one bow and arrow company. The pike company is the same as the pikemen in the model battalion equipped with muskets, so there's not much to say.
The difference is the sword company and the bow and arrow company. The former is the main force in melee combat, but it also has "projection firepower". What they project is javelins. A swordsman is equipped with two javelins and is required to accurately hit a watermelon-sized target twenty steps away during training!
The archers in the bow and arrow company are divided into two categories. One is the bamboo archers. They are all archers who have become monks on the way. They are equipped with weak bamboo bows and are responsible for firing volleys within twenty steps. The requirements for their "combat skills" are relatively low - there is no way. Archers have to be picked up from childhood, and it takes several years to practice before becoming a monk. With this skill, the firecrackers have to be changed.
There is another type of archer, the Kaiyuan archer. They are all good players who have been trained since childhood. They are equipped with the Kaiyuan bow commonly used by the Ming army's frontier troops. Although it is also a soft bow and is not as powerful as the Qing army's eight-power bow, it is very effective when used well. sharp.
And Tian Xiucai's "Bow and Spear Formation" made good use of the Kaiyuan archers. The specific usage is to scatter the Kaiyuan archers in the "sparse formation" of the pikemen, and use the pikemen to cover the Kaiyuan archers in combat.
Now Cao Riling was walking in the middle of a company of spearmen marching in six columns on the official road. A Kaiyuan bow with a tension of 40 kilograms and a long arrow were already in his hands.
More than ten steps in front of him, there were four sword players wearing slatted armor like him, all holding a heavy shield in one hand and a javelin in the other.
These four sword players were specially selected by Tian Qingyi. Not only are they good at throwing javelins, but they also have night eyes.
Cao Riling's eyesight is also very good, and he can see very far at night. He is walking while squinting and looking forward.
Now the moonlight in the sky has dimmed, but the sun is still below the horizon, and only the stars are still shining. With Cao Riling's eyesight, he could not see anything fifteen steps away, only darkness.
However, he could still clearly see the back of a sword and shield wielder directly in front of him.
At the same time, the sound of cannons, gunshots, cheers, and shouts of killing came one after another like waves - the fierce battle on both sides of Qingliu Creek is still continuing!
This noisy sound completely covered up the sound of the two heavily armed troops who were cautiously facing each other.
Under the darkness, the elite vanguards from both sides held their breath and walked towards each other step by step.
Suddenly, Cao Riling saw the sword player who was more than ten steps in front of him stopped, as if he had been hit by a immobilization spell, unable to move. After a while, he seemed to break free from the immobilization technique. He suddenly raised the javelin in his right hand and threw it vigorously. He also roared: "Kill!"
There are really Tatars!
Cao Riling immediately understood what was happening!
Immediately afterwards, the sound of the suona, the sound of screams, the shouts of the officers, and the jabbering shouts that Cao Riling could not understand became a mass.
Tian Qingyi, who finally "caught up" with the Tatars, was so excited that he almost trembled. After finally regaining some composure, he loudly ordered: "Phalanx! Meet the enemy!"
The "phalanx" he shouted was the so-called spear and bow formation. The spear phalanx is the "city" in the center; the swords are used as the "trench", which surrounds the front, left and right sides; the archers are arranged in the spear formation and are the "soldiers".
The messenger who followed Tian Qingyi immediately blew the suona and conveyed the order. The marching soldiers suddenly shouted in unison: "Emperor Taizu Gao is reincarnated...invincible!"
After shouting, they quickly changed their formation, from a six-row column to two rectangular square formations, one in front of the other.
On the other side, a Tatar Jia La was walking forward in Niulu units. Niu Lu, who was walking at the front, held half a shield and half a bow.
They originally planned to test the left wing of the Ming army, but unexpectedly they encountered the attacking Ming army before they arrived!
This shocked Niulu Zhangjinlu Kedu who was leading the team! It's late at night, it's so dark, you guys are not guarding the camp honestly, why are you going out?
Before he could recover from the shock, a javelin fell from the sky and plunged into the mud less than a foot in front of his right foot.
If he had taken even half a step more just now, he would have been completely chilled by now!
"It's Nikan!" Niulu Zhangjinglu Kedu opened his throat and shouted, "Shield formation, set up shield formation!"
Javelins are no joke! No matter how many layers of heavy armor you have, they will all pass through you, and you can only resist them with thick shields.
The Eight Banners soldiers under Lu Kedu also reacted quickly enough. In the blink of an eye, the Tatars holding shields deployed their shield array. Lu Kedu also retreated to the back and stood with the Eight Banners soldiers holding bows. Just when he took out the eight-power bow and wanted to shoot arrows with the others, someone suddenly shouted in his ears: "Javelin... raise your shield!"
What was thrown over this time was not three or four javelins, but a total of forty javelins, flying over with a strong wind!
