In Kunming City, on the bank of Cuiwei Lake, there is now a complex of buildings that are half school and half military camp. They have a common name - Yunnan Lecture Hall!
This name sounds awesome!
In fact, this martial arts hall is also very complicated. Just look at who the director of the martial arts hall is. The director of this Yunnan martial arts hall is the Dashun Emperor Li Guo himself!
Li Guo's idea of opening this martial arts lecture hall certainly came from Zhu Cixiang's Nanjing martial arts lecture hall, and he also had the same needs as Zhu Cixiang - the Dashun army was more messy than the Ming army, and they were originally made up of many bandits. Yes, even the internal orders were different at the beginning and had to be unified. After entering Sichuan and Yunnan, military reforms must be carried out in order to adapt to terrain changes and their own role changes.
The original Dashun and Daxi armies were both rogue bandits. If they wanted to "flow", of course they had to emphasize mobility. Therefore, both families were equipped with a large number of mules and horses. The main force of the old camp was mainly cavalry, and its ability to fight on foot, attack cities, and defend cities was relatively poor.
Historically, the main reason why they quickly collapsed when they encountered the Qing army entering the Pass was that after their best horse fighting was restrained by the Qing army's cavalry, they no longer had any effective tactics, and they could no longer even defend the city. .....
However, in this time and space, due to the long-term war between the Ming and Qing Dynasties, they were given ten years to slowly evolve, and they really made progress. Not only did they complete the transformation of Fubing (the system of the Dashun Dynasty was originally based on that of the Tang Dynasty, so it is normal to develop Juntian and Fubing), they also developed a combination of swordsmen and firecrackers that adapted to the rugged terrain of the southwest, and even Western muskets and artillery were introduced through the Burmese trade routes.
Moreover, Li Guo, Li Laiheng, Li Dingguo and others also got inspiration from the Nanjing Lecture Hall and opened the Yunnan Lecture Hall in Kunming three years ago.
However, there are differences between the Yunnan Military Academy and the Nanjing Military Academy. The Nanjing Military Academy copied the European phalanx tactics. This tactic is not completely applicable to China, because the European phalanx tactics are It requires the cooperation of powerful cavalry, and the Ming army lacks powerful cavalry.
At the same time, the Ming army's opponents did not have powerful shock cavalry, and even the Eight Banners and Old Manchuria did not rely on mounted shocks as their main means of combat. They are more like dismounted knights, marching on horseback and fighting dismounted. Their most powerful ability is hand-to-hand combat!
If on the battlefield of Deshengdian, Dodo was willing to risk his old Manchus and use the tactics of approaching on horseback and dismounting to fight against the Morris Square of the Ming Army, there would still be a possibility of victory! Of course, the premise is that the Eight Banners warriors can withstand a volley of musketry from the Ming army and the intensive gunfire that follows. They may also have to rush up with the shot of the Ming army's 3-pound artillery, stepping on the corpses of their own people. After three such victories, the old Eight Banners in Manchuria would be extinct... Shi Kefa defeated Liao all the way, which was considered a miracle!
But who makes them, the Eight Banner Old Manchus, rarer than giant pandas? There are more giant pandas in the wild these days than old Manchu warriors.
So Duduo basically knew the weaknesses of the Ming Army's Morris Square, and he didn't dare to take the lives of old Manchus to fill it...
But Dashun has many soldiers!
They claim to be a peasant uprising, but China just has a lot of peasants!
Therefore, Li Dingguo, a tactical expert who was born and raised in Dashun (Daxi), invented the Musket-Knife Formation based on summarizing the experience and lessons of the battle to pacify Yunnan.
On the tenth day of the tenth month of the sixth year of the reign of Dashun, the co-ruling emperor Li Guo was too lazy to go to court. He went down to Mount Wuhua early in the morning, took a boat across Cuiwei Lake, and went to see Li Ding at the Lecture Hall. The national soldiers performed martial arts.
Li Dingguo's musket and sword formation was not a battalion-level formation, but a hundred-man formation, which was a company-level military formation. It's not that there is no need for spears at all. Each formation is composed of thirty fire gun soldiers, sixty sword soldiers and ten spearmen.
In addition, the shapes of the musket and knife arrays are also quite diverse, including not only square arrays, but also circular arrays and wedge-shaped arrays. Among them, the phalanx has the musket in front and is used for outputting firepower. The circular formation uses a shield to circle a circle. The spear protrudes from the shield, and the musket is also mounted on the shield, which is used to deal with the cavalry. The wedge formation has the spear in front and the sword in the back, which is used when launching an attack...
Seeing a few hundred people composed of Dashun Army officers who had been trained in the martial arts hall changing rapidly, sometimes into a square formation, now a circle formation, now a wedge formation, like clouds and flowing water, Li Guo shouted loudly.
Li Dingguo on the side was also quite proud. He patted his chest and said to Li Guo: "Your Majesty, as long as the Northern Expeditionary Army can master this set of muskets and swords, they will be invincible!"
Li Guo nodded, "Then we can't underestimate the enemy... This time we have to go deep into the enemy's territory. If we are not careful, we may never come back!"
"Don't worry, Your Majesty," Li Dingguo said, "As long as our 50,000 Northern Expedition army is fully trained, even if the enemy has 200,000 soldiers, they will still be vulnerable!"
"When will the Northern Expeditionary Army be able to complete its training?" Li Guo asked, "Will the fire blunderbuss be sufficient?"
Li Dingguo said: "According to the plan, our Northern Expeditionary Army will be organized into a total of four hundred centurions, plus some artillery, cavalry, heavy equipment, etc., to form one hundred battalions and twenty-five regiments... ...A total of 12,000 turtle-dove-foot fireguns are needed. Our blacksmithing fields in Chongqing and Kunming have limited production. We can only produce four to five hundred turtle-dove-foot fireguns in a month. We have to make up 12,000 turtle-foot fireguns. Two years. The inventory now is nearly 6,000, and it will be almost there in another year.”
Li Guo nodded: "That's good. Even if there are not ten thousand, there will be eight thousand..."
"Your Majesty, so fast?" Li Dingguo was obviously a little surprised.
Li Guo whispered: "Huang Shu has arrived at Shalian and sent someone to deliver a memorial... At the latest in the autumn of next year, the Ming army will attack Beijing in a large scale, and then the Ming Emperor will also personally conquer it. This is our opportunity! Prince Jin, you must seize it!"
"Your Majesty, don't worry, I will definitely live up to your expectations!"
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"Your Majesty, according to reliable information, the rogue bandits have recently imported a large number of artillery and muskets, and have also opened martial arts halls in Kunming, Yunnan, to train officers and form the so-called Northern Expeditionary Army! Now the military towns in the two Sichuan and all the armies under Guizhou are very frightened. I hope that your Majesty can send new troops to overcome difficulties..."
The person who was reporting to Zhu Cixiang about the military affairs in the Southwest in the Huangji Hall of Laoshan Palace was Ma Shiying. He had been supervising the army in the Southwest for many years, but he was old and ineffective and had lost a lot of territory. If he had left it until the time of Emperor Chongzhen, he would have been scolded by the censors. died.
However, now the censor is not qualified to intervene in military matters, and civil servants cannot say much. The only one who is truly qualified to make an assessment is the Military Advisor Office.
The Military Advisor's Office has a pretty good opinion of Ma Shiying and the Southwest Army... Although they didn't win any battles, they still tried hard to maintain the situation. So Ma Shiying has been sitting in the position of governor of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan for many years. It was only recently that he got a new job, as governor of Jiangnan!
This is a very lucrative job. Even if you don't make money or be greedy, you can still make tens of thousands of taels of income a year!
Ma Shiying was able to get such an assignment, which was obviously a reward for his hard work in the southwest.
The person who replaced Ma Shiying as the governor of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan was a military attache born in Sichuan, named Zeng Ying. Zeng Ying is only thirty-four years old this year, but she has been famous for many years! As early as the last years of Chongzhen, he defeated Zhang Xianzhong and recovered Chongqing Mansion.
In the many years of war that followed, he and Yang Zhan, another general from Sichuan, grew up to be the twin leaders of the Sichuan Ming Army. Later, they went out to Sichuan to participate in the Kong Dai cram school, but the tactics they learned from Prince Kong Dai were not easy to use after going to Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan.
Therefore, the situation in the southwest is still unfavorable to the Ming army.
Recently, the Governor-General's Office of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan of the Ming Army heard the news that rogue bandits were organizing the Northern Expedition. They were very nervous. Therefore, the new Governor Zeng Ying and the outgoing Governor Ma Shiying took advantage of the opportunity to visit the emperor in Beijing and asked Emperor Zhu for urgent help.
After Ma Shiying said everything, Zeng Ying continued: "Your Majesty, the rogue bandits are becoming more and more stable in the southwest and have become a powerful force. If the imperial court does not send troops to Sichuan to suppress the bandits, I am afraid that the Yunnan-Guizhou Rebellion will continue for a long time. , there is no period of peace!"
