The tactic of queuing up to kill was spread quite well on the Internet in later generations. It seemed to be a very powerful tactic that could only be organized by soldiers who were serious about death and officers with extremely high tactical literacy and fearless spirit.
If the analysis is further deepened, it will even go into the aspects of beliefs and social systems.
But Zhu Heji, who had led soldiers for eight years in the 17th century, knew that queuing up to kill was just a common tactic in which the rear row held the front row, officers and non-commissioned officers held the soldiers, and then row after row went into battle to die.
In fact, ever since humans learned to line up to fight, dense and neat formations have been the pursuit of all commanders.
Because the denser the formation, the easier it is to keep the queue neat, and the neater the queue, the easier it is for the officer to command.
And the denser the formation, the less likely it is to collapse during the battle. Because there were people crowding around and behind most of the soldiers, it was difficult to turn around and squeeze out. Moreover, the soldiers in the rear team can also supervise the soldiers in the front team and escort them to block bullets for themselves.
Therefore, in the era of queuing to kill, the most annoying thing for officers was that soldiers would lie down during the battle or refuse to stand up after squatting. Therefore, many armies that used queuing to shoot simply did not allow soldiers forming horizontal lines to squat or lie down. . So for a long time, the armies of Western countries have been debating whether the horizontal formation of line infantry should be arranged in three rows or two rows.
Because in the case of three rows, if the soldiers in the first row do not kneel down to shoot, it will be difficult for the soldiers in the last row to fire due to the obstruction of the first row. In this way, when three rows fired a salvo, only two rows could actually fire.
However, this third row that did not fire could "push" the first two rows forward, which were more likely to be killed by enemy bullets. Therefore, at the end of the discussion, the three-row queue still became the mainstream.
And the reason why this dense formation, almost shoulder to shoulder, appeared in the era of flintlock muskets is actually because of the flintlock muskets!
In earlier matchlock guns, when fired, the match might fly away, igniting the gunpowder carried by the surrounding soldiers, causing unnecessary casualties. Therefore, the matchlock teams cannot form a dense formation shoulder to shoulder, but can only form a relatively loose formation.
The flintlock muskets did not have a match rope, so there was no possibility of the match falling apart, and dense formations of flintlock muskets naturally appeared. The emergence of the sleeve bayonet allowed the flintlock to be used as a short spear.
Although a flintlock with a bayonet attached to it is definitely not as easy to use as a spear when used to poke people and horses, in order to facilitate command and formation, the spear was quickly eliminated. So in the era of line infantry, there was a scene where the entire battalion of soldiers used the same weapon, formed a simple, dense, neat, and easy-to-command formation, and used fairly simple tactical actions to fight.
In fact, the combination of spears, bows, arrows, knives, and muskets used by the Qing army in the Opium War, as well as the nine-in-ten chain tactics of the matchlock soldiers, were far more complicated than the British army's queuing and shooting tactics, and they were also easier to defeat. Disperse - because the formation is already dispersed!
And the various arms are dispatched back and forth on the battlefield, and it is very easy to cause chaos in the process of taking turns to fight. The requirements for training and command are much higher than lining up to shoot. Of course, the Qing troops, who were usually sparsely trained, could not exert the due power of this mixed formation. It was not surprising that the British army was defeated.
Of course, if they were replaced by the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers of the early Qing Dynasty, and they could give full play to the power of this mixed formation, they would still be defeated by enemies using flintlock guns!
There is nothing that can be done about it. After the advantages brought by a single unit, dense formations, and intensive firepower are superimposed, the matchlock guns and corresponding tactics of the old era have been reduced in dimensionality.
In fact, the Qing Dynasty in history had already suffered from the flintlock rifle when the holy ancestor Kang Mazi ruled the world.
During the Second Battle of Yaksa, the Cossacks equipped with hundreds of flintlock rifles caused heavy losses to Kang Mazi's Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers and Green Camp Elites. In the end, they could only win by besieging the hungry.
However, Zhu Heji did not exist at that time, and the San Francisco Rebellion was put down by Kang Mazi. Even Taiwan was recovered, leaving only Galdan who was still a bit of a threat. But as long as the Qing Dynasty and Tsarist Russia signed a treaty, Galdan's access to the flintlock gun would be cut off. Therefore, dangerous things like flintlock guns should be kept away from the Han people, lest they be taken by Prince Zhu and his grandsons to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty.
But the situation is different now. The third prince and grandson of Zhu have already wiped out half of the Qing Dynasty with flintlock guns and sugar bombs.
Now Kang Mazi no longer cared about guarding his own obedient Han people, so in the past two or three years, he spent all his money on three major projects: flintlock guns, granulated black powder and sugar powder.
And the money that Emperor Kangxi spent was finally put to great use in the Pyongyang Rebellion that occurred in early November of the 17th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty!
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"Long live! Long live!"
The Qing army's shotgun soldiers and pikemen standing in layers below the Peony Stage gave out deafening cheers. Standing on the peony platform and looking at the tens of thousands of Qing soldiers standing on the hillside below, on the city wall near Xuanwu Gate, and in the open space outside Xuanwu Gate, I finally found some of the feelings I had when Huang Taiji personally conquered Korea.
To be honest, the 100,000 soldiers brought to North Korea by Kang Mazi are stronger than the first and second generation Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers brought to North Korea by Huang Taiji.
This is not just talk, there is evidence.
First of all, Kangxi had more Batulu warriors than Huang Taiji's Batulu warriors! And it’s not just a little bit more, but a hundred times more!
At that time, there were only a dozen Batuluyong titles awarded by Huang Taiji. And Kangxi has awarded at least a thousand baturus in the past few years... That's really a lot of courage!
Moreover, in order to win over these Batulus, Kangxi also gave them the treatment of "giving them yellow jackets" and asked them to take turns serving as bodyguards around them to bring the monarch and his ministers closer to each other.
Secondly, Kang Mazi's army is now equipped with a large number of flintlock guns - some of these flintlocks are imported through the "Haezhou Concession" in North Korea, and some are manufactured by the Ministry of Internal Affairs under Kang Mazi's personal supervision. produced.
The Manufacturing Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kangxi not only brought together the skilled blacksmiths he could find in the land of the Qing Dynasty, but also hired a group of foreign craftsmen who were good at making muskets and artillery with the help of the Dutch East India Company.
In order to provide high-quality iron materials for the arsenal of the Manufacturing Office, Kangxi did not care about the Feng Shui of his hometown in the Northeast, and asked Nan Huairen to take a group of Dutch engineers to Liaoyang Prefecture, which was rich in iron ore during the Ming Dynasty, to look for good iron. Good mines were discovered near Anshanyi and Benxi Hushan!
After collecting some flintlock rifles, Emperor Kangxi began to study the infantry drills and regulations of Western countries that the Dutch East India Company had found for him... He soon discovered that after the Thirty Years' War , all Western military powers began to adopt denser formations, and at the same time, they greatly increased the proportion of fusiliers and matchlocks in the infantry (it would be too rich to eliminate fusiliers all at once, and ordinary countries cannot do it). Generally reached 60 to 70 percent.
The archers, shield sword soldiers, and halberdiers have almost disappeared from the battlefield, as long as the Ottoman Empire still has such arms.
Emperor Kangxi, who had been fighting "modern wars" with Zhu Heji for several years, had also discovered that those miscellaneous military units were of little use on today's battlefield. On the current battlefield, fusiliers, matchlocks, pikemen, grenadiers, cavalry, and artillery are still useful.
So he decisively followed the trend and created a new Eight Banners soldier that mixed flintlocks and matchlocks, and also used a large number of sugar-powder weapons!
And the first battle of this new Eight Banners Army took place right here in Pyongyang!
Emperor Kangxi's new army was truly astonishing in combat power. It was defeated in less than a day. After learning that the Korean vassal state had been withdrawn, they immediately raised troops to expel the Pyongyang civilian army stationed at the Qing army... These were under the banner of The Korean soldiers under the banner of the Ming Dynasty were simply vulnerable. Even relying on the fortified city of Pyongyang, they could not stop the wolf-like tiger-like soldiers of the Qing Dynasty!
After Emperor Kangxi announced the decision to "not seal the sword for three days", he was greeted by fanatical shouts.
Kangxi raised his fist high on his head and pointed southward: "Baturu of the Qing Dynasty, in three days, I will take you to Seoul...take Seoul, and I will not seal the sword for ten days!" "
