Moreover, the musketeers no longer wear heavy iron armor. Like the Shenji Battalion, they use breastplates to protect themselves.
However, they added the same arm armor as the border troops to avoid having no reliable defensive equipment to resist when the enemy rushes forward.
Arm armor should not be underestimated. During a battle, it is very possible to avoid a fatal blow from the enemy.
The function of the musket cavalry is equivalent to that of the crossbow light cavalry among the Mongolian cavalry. They will not fight with the enemy at close range, and they will not charge the enemy like traditional cavalry.
The Mongolian cavalry back then could easily defeat the enemy with their extremely skilled riding and shooting, as well as their more powerful crossbows. His musketry cavalry could also do the same.
The effective range of 120 meters and the armor-piercing range of 80 meters are simply a level higher than the range and power of mounted archers.
As long as the training is up to standard, and then a few battles are carried out to accumulate some actual combat experience and improve all aspects of quality and adaptability, it will definitely be a nightmare for the enemy.
Firearms and musketeers are the main force of the future military services of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Youxiao still attaches great importance to them.
In contrast, Huben Camp and Taishan Camp did not receive such good treatment. They had to buy new armor and be equipped with new weapons.
These two arms no longer have great development potential and necessary trends.
Heavy armored soldiers will inevitably be eliminated soon. The pinnacle infantry in the era of cold weapons can only play the role of cannon fodder in the era of hot weapons.
According to Zhu Youxiao's idea, future battles will be all about long-range coverage and strikes with firepower. After the enemy is defeated, it is only necessary to send cavalry to harvest the battlefield and mop up the enemy.
The charge of heavy armored soldiers will become very useless, so this time the Yulin Army carried out a large-scale expansion of the army, the Taishan Battalion did not add a single soldier, and the establishment was still 5,000.
As for the infantry, it is the weakest arm. Whether it is against cavalry or an army with firearms, without an extremely good general commanding it, there is absolutely no chance of winning.
Especially when facing cavalry, unless you have powerful weapons that the opponent does not have and can carry out dimensionality reduction strikes, you may have a chance of winning.
Why was Li Ling able to withstand the fierce offensive of tens of thousands of Huns' main cavalry with only 5,000 infantry, and was able to kill and injure tens of thousands of enemy troops?
It was because the Han army at that time crushed the Xiongnu in terms of weapons and tactics.
The powerful crossbows of the Han army, which had a range far beyond that of the Huns, as well as the shield formation and chariot formation, made it impossible for the Huns cavalry to get close.
Of course, his own military ability is also extremely excellent. If it were an ordinary general, facing tens of thousands of cavalry with 5,000 infantry, he would have fled long ago.
Without the blessing of these factors and conditions, it would be impossible for the infantry to defeat the cavalry, unless the opposing general is really a stupid pig.
The two of them talked deeply all the way, and before they knew it, they had reached the outskirts of the imperial city. Zhu Youxiao looked at his familiar home and smiled.
"Everything that I know has been reported to your Majesty. Your Majesty has had a long journey, so I won't bother you too much. I will retire!"
Zhang Weixian's eyesight is really unmatched by ordinary people. This is what Zhu Youxiao admires and admires the most about him.
After Zhang Weixian left, Zhu Youxiao put away his smile and rode his war horse towards the imperial city.
Based on Zhang Weixian's oral report along the way, Zhu Youxiao finally felt a little relieved.
The situation is much better than I expected. The tax issue of the Ministry of Revenue this year is just a trivial matter.
The most difficult thing is how to deal with the Kong family and the White Lotus Sect in Shandong.
It's not easy to influence the Kong family. The Kong family's status is really too high.
To attack the Kong family is more difficult than dealing with the bureaucracy and gentry in Jiangnan.
This matter was so important and critical that even Zhu Youxiao was confused and at a loss.
Perhaps only when he meets Wei Zhongxian and Yang Huan can he find the answer and make the right decision.
Because he wanted to understand the specific situation as soon as possible, when he first entered the palace gate, Zhu Youxiao asked the guard in Jinyi to go and order the two to enter the palace.
Then he rode away and went straight into the palace. After quickly passing through the front palace, Zhu Youxiao finally dismounted outside the main hall square of Qianqing Palace.
After asking a palace maid, he found out that the queen was in Kunning Palace at this time, so he couldn't wait and headed straight towards the harem with a group of his bodyguards.
In Kunning Palace, Queen Zhang Yan, who had just returned from Concubine Chun's palace, was looking at the emperor's uniform in a daze.
As the saying goes, she just got married and became a queen, and she had been separated from her husband for several months. It was impossible not to think about it.
The time she and Zhu Youxiao spent together was even worse than the time they spent apart this time.
What bothered her the most was her family affairs. Her father was not at all restless, and he really didn't let her have any peace for a moment.
When her parents moved from their hometown in Henan, they were extremely anxious when they heard that their daughter, who had just been crowned queen, had been forgotten by the emperor in the palace.
Their daughter had just become the queen, the mother of a country, and her position was not yet solid, yet she was actually left aside by the emperor. How could they not panic?
They thought about it carefully and felt something was wrong. It was not that they didn't know how beautiful their daughter was.
Not to mention how many miles around my hometown is, even in the entire Ming Dynasty, her beauty is one of the best, otherwise they would not be so confident in sending their daughter to participate in the election of concubine.
Could it be that the emperor didn't like his daughter?
But if you don't like it, why would you choose your daughter to be the queen?
This made them very confused, and they really couldn't figure out why all this was happening.
After arriving in the capital, relying on his status as the head of the country, he used gold and silver to clear the way.
After many inquiries, they finally learned that one of the emperor's concubines had been pregnant for several months, which doubled their sense of crisis.
This kind of thing where mother is more valuable than son was quite common in the Ming Dynasty.
Let's not talk about it far, let's just say that the old emperor who died just last year, His Majesty's grandfather, because he loved his younger son and worked against the civil servants all his life regardless of his elders, he had to make his younger son the prince.
Although the Zhang family is not a wealthy gentry family, they are still middle class at the level of landlords.
There are also educated people in his family, and he himself is friends with people from Donglin Academy, so he is well aware of the vigorous struggle between the country and the country.
They were really afraid that the emperor would be like this, so they thought about it all day long, worrying about the future of their daughter and their family.
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