"Your Highness, I have also considered the double-barreled gun before. However, with all due respect, the weight of the double-barreled gun is too large and may not be suitable for infantry to carry for a long time. It will also increase the manufacturing cost. I hope Your Highness will consider it at your discretion."
Lao Tang also considered a double-barreled version, but if a musket weighed more than ten kilograms, it would be a big burden for the small Ming soldiers.
Because in addition to muskets, they also have to wear armor and carry ammunition, food, water bladders and other personal belongings. Every additional kilogram of weight consumes the soldiers' already limited physical strength.
The cost is also a big factor. If the cost is increased by half just for the first shot, it seems to be a waste of money. What's more, if the battle is defeated, all such guns will be obtained by the enemy.
A single-barreled gun costs eight to ten taels of silver, and a double-barreled version may cost as much as fourteen and fifty taels. When Spain was financially wealthy, it did not consider equipping its troops with muskets designed in this way.
Equipping an army of 100,000 people with weapons will cost a lot of money just for the muskets. The cost of purchasing new smoothbore flintlock muskets will be even higher. It is absolutely not advisable not to be careful with your budget.
"...Well, I will think twice before taking action!"
Just to replace the troops brought back by Qin Bing, Yongwei Ying, and Hong Chengchou with smoothbore flintlock muskets would cost more than one million taels of silver. I can only complain that prices are too high and money is too worthless.
Add to that mines, grenades, artillery, tanks and airships, and form three brigades with a total of about 10,000 dragoon troops. I'm afraid five million taels of silver will evaporate in an instant.
If Lao Tang also holds an objection, Yaoji won't have much hope for the very tasteless double-tube version. It can't be purchased anyway, so it is better to directly refrigerate it or carry out a one-step upgrade.
Recalling the plan to change the arms mentioned by the prince before, Lao Tang added: "His Royal Highness Shicai plans to replace the spearmen and sword and shield soldiers with musketeers, and change all the infantry square formations to musketeers. This will facilitate command and distribution, but I wonder how this formation can defend against enemy cavalry attacks?"
The advantages and disadvantages of a pure musketeer phalanx are obvious. Forming a horizontal formation can increase the firepower output, but it is difficult to defend. Even if it forms a phalanx, it will not be able to withstand the fierce impact of the enemy's cavalry group. Once it collapses, it will be completely defeated. .
An arquebusier usually fires one bullet in 40-60 seconds, and a skilled person can shoot two to three rounds per minute. However, the battlefield situation changes rapidly, and the enemy cavalry's attack speed is much higher than that of the infantry. If the horse sprints at full speed, four hundred The mile distance can be covered in less than two minutes.
Our own musketeers have at most three or four shooting opportunities. Faced with the exciting scene of thousands of horses galloping, most of the idiots will panic. The reloading speed will slow down invisibly, and it is normal to make mistakes while busy.
Spearmen are a unit specially used to deal with cavalry. In order to ensure that one's own formation is not broken up, the Spanish phalanx will generally equip spearmen with one-third to one-fourth of the number of musketeers.
In the Swedish Gustavus Phalanx, each 408-man infantry squadron has half of the spearmen. The Dutch Morris Phalanx is also similar. The purpose of deploying troops in this way is to contain the impact of the enemy's cavalry.
In Lao Tang's eyes, giving up the practice of spearmen was asking for trouble. The prince had never commanded an army, let alone been on the battlefield. If he didn't have a way to deal with it, it would be a fantasy.
Yaoji understood that what Lao Tang said was based on reality. No country in this era was crazy enough to adopt a pure musketeer phalanx. He was the first to try it: "I think that spearmen can be useful." Combat engineers are used to replace them. In addition to building bridges and paving roads, these engineers are also tasked with setting up blocking facilities on the battlefield to prevent enemy cavalry from attacking. Such as horse-blocking stakes and tripping ropes, as well as laying mines and digging gullies. . If it is an encounter and there is not enough time, I still have three weapons to restrain the cavalry assault infantry phalanx. One is the mortar, the second is the repeating gun, and the third is the grenade. According to the respective characteristics of the three weapons range to block enemy cavalry with fire."
Engineers can take over most of the tasks that spearmen do. If an infantry brigade has 5,000 people, an engineer battalion of about 500 people will be enough.
After adopting the modular component method, the iron rods on the horse can be removed and used as stretcher rods and tent frames. One material can be used for multiple purposes, which can effectively reduce the logistical burden.
During wartime, if this kind of one-meter-long iron rod is driven into the ground, and iron chains are hung on both sides, it will be a trip horse rope. Make hundreds of them and set them at different heights to give the braided cavalry a "completely free obstacle course." , if you can't cross it, you will be tripped to death.
According to the interception sequence envisioned by Yaoji, the cavalry of the "Qing King's Division" must first walk through the mine formation, then jump on the horse rope, and then rush through the horse-repelling stakes before they can approach their musketeer phalanx.
These are only the "three treasures on the ground", and there are also the "three treasures in the air".
Mortars are the famous "heartless cannons". The explosive power of the Ming Dynasty is not as powerful as that of later generations. However, if it only contains five kilograms of explosive bags, it should fly a distance of 150-200 meters. If you tie a few more explosive bags, Hundred-shot iron balls were used as grenades.
It's hard to say whether it can be used to pierce armor, but the killing effect of the iron beads will be very obvious. If it is embedded in the forehead, it will really create a big brain hole, and maybe the braids will be enlightened by this...
The "repeating gun" is not a machine gun, and it is not even semi-automatic. The five musket barrels are arranged in a row and coded into four rows like this. The appearance is similar to the "Hail" rocket launcher, and the firing principle is also similar. Each time it fires one Platoon, specifically designed to fight the braided cavalry.
This weapon is installed on a tank and used as a Vulcan cannon. It is designed to be a quick-detachable version. If one weighs about one hundred kilograms, four soldiers can complete the installation by carrying it. If they are well-trained, it can be installed in ten seconds. You can start shooting again within a few seconds.
There is no need to go into details about the grenades. Each person carries five grenades, one kilogram of powder, and each grenade is attached with fifty iron beads. The fuze is set to explode in three seconds. After being ejected, the braided cavalry will be shocked and howled... …
The cavalry of the "King of the Qing Dynasty" had to rush through the "Greetings of the Six Auspicious Treasures" before they could approach the Ming Army's musket array. This was called a positional battle, otherwise it would just be to kill the opponent.
Yaoji didn't tell Lao Tang that he also had a secret weapon, a tank, which looked similar to the chariot currently used by the Ming army!
However, it is fully armored and completely ignores rifle bullets and cavalry impacts. It cannot be destroyed unless it is directly hit by an artillery shell.
If each brigade is equipped with sixty to eighty vehicles to protect the two wings of the formation, the Qing cavalry's strategy of outflanking may be ineffective.
After Yaoji explained his idea to Lao Tang in detail, Lao Tang thought blankly for a long time before he nodded slightly and felt that this method was feasible.
With these "six treasures" and the aid of airships, it is indeed possible for the Ming army to defeat the enemy. The prince's words are indeed true.
"Your Highness, I heard that the enemy's cavalry is good at shooting, especially the encircling cavalry shooting that is the most exquisite. The loading speed of the musketeers is far slower than that of bows and arrows. How can we defend against this method?"
In the post-Nurha Chicken Wings period, in order to avoid causing huge casualties to one's own side, the Qing cavalry commanded by Huang Taiji would not launch an assault on the Ming Army's infantry phalanx unless absolutely necessary.
Most of them cooperate with the frontal advance of the heavy armored infantry, and mainly use bows and arrows to cover the enemy's flanks and disperse the opponent's defensive forces. They will not act recklessly.
Lao Tang believed that the defensive cavalry should firstly defend against the opponent's frontal assault, and secondly, prevent the opponent from outflanking and disturbing the flanks of the formation.
The bows and arrows used by the Qing army were also tried by Lao Tang. Not to mention their power, the ultimate rate of fire of thirty rounds per minute alone was beyond the reach of the musketeers.
Judging from past battle reports and the experience summaries of the Ming army generals, the elite cavalry with braided cavalry almost no need to fire arrows at targets within 20 to 30 meters, and their accuracy is extremely high, reaching 70 to 80%.
When the Ming army infantry fought in the field, they were often disturbed by the opponent and had no intention of fighting, coupled with the inhumane and crazy attacks!
This is not an exaggeration, because the rate of being hit by arrows in the face is quite high. If people with braids only know how to ride horses, they might as well go to the Olympics.
"I believe that to deal with the approaching enemy cavalry, the musketeers can attack and defend. The first attack is to equip the musketeers with crossbows. Although the power is not as powerful as the bow, it can avoid the passive situation of being beaten and unable to fight back. The first defense is to equip all musketeers with Western-style plate armor, especially to strengthen the armor thickness of the head and torso, so that even if the enemy's arrows hit the target, they will not be able to cause significant damage."
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My musketeers can't shoot you any better than archery. Even if you don't use crossbows to fight back, you can't shoot through the PLUS plate armor.
All Ming troops in charge of field battles were equipped with Western-style full-coverage chicken helmets, and their faces were protected by beak-shaped triangular pyramids. No matter how powerful the Qing bow was, it could not damage the big faces of the musketeers.
The torso is also thickened, so that as long as important parts are not severely damaged, injuries to the limbs will not matter, and the infantry brigade will not suffer serious attrition even if it is hit by long-range fire from the braided cavalry.
Once the cavalry outflanks and cannot effectively affect the defense of the Ming army's infantry formation, then the only way to go is to cooperate with the heavy armored infantry to attack the front.
Yaoji plans to build a musketeer unit with Western-style equipment, equipped with airships and tanks, and fight with the braids once. If it doesn't work, he will re-code the people, and then fight again when they are ready.
An army has three divisions with nine brigades, plus an army-affiliated infantry brigade, totaling 50,000 people, with a total budget of three million taels of silver.
This is the first stage development goal of the new army in the future. Within five years, with these three armies, Yaoji will dare to have a strategic decisive battle with Huangtaiji.
If your annual income exceeds 25 million taels this year, then play big. Otherwise, you will have to settle for the status quo and spend small amounts of money to do big things.
Each infantry brigade is composed of four infantry battalions, one cavalry battalion, one artillery battalion, one engineer battalion, two supply battalions, plus a number of health companies, communications companies, military police companies and other auxiliary units.
The infantry battalion is composed of pure musketeers, and the cavalry battalion has not changed much. Different from the existing Ming army troops, it is an artillery battalion, which is composed of a rocket launcher company, a mortar company, and two field artillery companies.
The rocket launcher battery is equipped with the British "Congreve rocket". The affordable version has a range of more than 1,500 meters, and the PLUS version has a range of more than 3,000 meters.
This weapon is not very heavy, only fifteen kilograms, and its projectile is only one meter long, but it has a wide range of uses and can be equipped with the navy and launched from surface ships.
The mortar company is naturally equipped with the "heartless gun". There is no artillery that is cheaper and more versatile than this thing. It will not hurt even if it is useless at once.
The weapons installed in the field artillery battery gave Yaoji a headache, because there were so many types of artillery manufactured by the Ming Dynasty that he could be dazzled.
"Bing Lu" divides artillery into three categories: war guns, offensive guns, and defensive guns.
War blunderbuss includes half snake blunderbuss, big snake blunderbuss, big franc machine gun, and small franc machine gun.
Attacking blunderbuss includes eagle blunderbuss, bird's beak blunderbuss, half bludgeoning blunderbuss, large blunderbuss, double big blunderbuss, roaring tiger blunderbuss, and flying blunderbuss.
The guard gun is the least popular, but there are also half-beak gun, large-beak gun, double-beak gun, and tiger-crown gun.
The Snake Gun is the Hongyi Cannon. Like the Folang Gun, it is divided into two types: large and small.
Although this kind of artillery is bulky and not suitable for field transfer, due to the short range of the Folang gun, the snake gun can only appear on the battlefield as a long-range projectile weapon.
Huangtaiji acquired this cannon-casting technology seven or eight years ago. As of this year, the Qing army has been equipped with no less than sixty Hongyi cannons, and hundreds of other artillery pieces. Therefore, it is said that "the Qing Dynasty" "Master Wang" can conquer the world just by riding on foot. This is a very metaphysical statement.
The inscription on a Hongyi cannon that has been preserved to later generations is: On the auspicious day of midsummer in the Wuyin year of Chongzhen, he donated money to build the Hongyi cannon. The governor's army gate Lu Xiangsheng, the governor's army gate Chen Xinjia, the governor's censor Ye Tinggui, and the eunuch Niu Wenbing...
Another inscription reads: It was cast on an auspicious day in the middle of winter in the twelfth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty. It weighed 5,400 kilograms. The imperial envoy ordered the governor-general of the army, Hong Chengchou. Liu Guoyu, the imperial envoy Yongping Supervisor of the Army, Shi Shenghe, and the imperial envoy Ma Ke, the commander-in-chief of the Premier Town!
Yaoji plans to use the "Congreve Rocket" to replace the Hongyi Cannon. The rocket can be used as soon as it is fired. There is no need to worry about being captured by the opponent. It is also very convenient to transport. It far exceeds the Hongyi Cannon in terms of loading and rate of fire.
The Fran machine continues to be used in the middle range. Although this artillery has a relatively short range, because it uses a rear-loading chamber for loading, and one gun is equipped with multiple chambers, it is very fast, which is in line with Yaoji's tactical concept.
If the "Napoleon Cannon" can be built, regardless of the size, the Hongyi cannon and the Franco machine can be withdrawn from active service, but we are not too sure yet. After all, building the cannon body is much more difficult than the rocket. The "Dharma stick" of Zheng Erba Sutra.
After the new cannons can really be installed in large quantities, all the Hongyi cannons in active service can be used as defensive guns.
Watching artillery reload this thing once on the battlefield will make you anxious to death, and you may not be able to finish reloading even if you take a nap...
