"Military order: The whole class of the second company and the third class of the first battalion of the former right brigade failed to arrive at the designated area in time during the operation just now and failed to complete the set combat objectives. The whole class cowered and showed fear of war! The collective demerit was recorded once ! Deprive the military fields of merit! Inform the whole battalion and the whole brigade to serve as a warning to others!!"
At the Zhengxi Dusi, Fan Baoyi, commander of the first battalion of the former right brigade, announced the punishment for the next squad in front of the entire first battalion arranged in several rows.
The dozen or so people whose punishments were announced in public looked gloomy. There were fifteen acres of military merit fields! If you can't get rewarded for your meritorious service in the coming war, then isn't this trip in vain?
"Tong Wei, squad leader of the fifth class, and all of the fifth class, you can obey this punishment!"
Tong Wei, the monitor of Class 5, looked at Fan Baoyi, gritted his teeth and said, "I'll obey!"
He had to accept it.
Now is not the time to serve in the Eight Banners Army. Punishment and reward all depend on relationships first.
The regulations of the Ming Army clearly stipulate that rewards and punishments must be made public and announced in front of all soldiers!
In a previous battle with Russian Cossacks.
The new recruits under his command all showed a fear of battle, causing a battle that could have easily wiped out the opponent's scouts turned into a pursuit battle, and in the end, more than a dozen of them were defeated by the opponent.
So now that they have been tricked and deprived of military merit, they have nothing to complain about, and it is considered magnanimous not to directly demote them to herd slaves.
If you stay in the army, you still have the opportunity to make meritorious deeds!
Fan Baoyi's eyes swept across the entire battalion of soldiers.
He was actually Fan Baoyi in the Baoyi Army formed by the original Qianlong.
But now he is the major battalion commander of Zhengxi Dusi - as a veteran who has participated in almost every Ming and Qing war from the Battle of Jiangxi to the present.
Fan Baoyi has caught up with the trend of the times.
Of course, this is also because he is lucky enough - New Eight Banners like him usually give priority to fighting in the front line as cannon fodder.
Except for some of Fan Baoyi's contemporaries who surrendered to the Ming army early, most of them died on the battlefield.
So Fan Baoyi can be considered a veteran who has survived hundreds of battles.
And when the Zhengxi Dusi later conducted the "Chinese level" examination.
Fan Baoyi also achieved high scores - because he was originally a Han Chinese who became the new Eight Banners.
Counting his combat experience and Chinese language test scores.
Fan Baoyi was one of the first batch to participate in the "Ming Dynasty Officers Crash Course".
Then he was promoted to major and became the commander of the battalion.
Since he became a Ming army.
Of course, the name "coating" cannot be used.
Although the name Baoyi was given by his parents, Xiaofan Baoyi's parents did not expect that the business would be closed down so easily during the Qing Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty was not interested in making coatings.
So Fan Baoyi changed his name to Fan Baoyi.
Hey.
Don't tell me yet.
The name suddenly became taller.
Fan Baoyi, who became a major of the Ming Army, also realized the dream that he could not realize even when he was a soldier: he has dozens of acres of farmland, and some people come to marry him. As for the Manchu Eight Banners tigress that he took before, he is not docile now. No matter how much he got, those wild brats no longer dared to make noises in front of him.
This is really an unpredictable life.
However, Fan Baoyi, who became a major battalion commander, did not feel that he had much ability.
I basically act in accordance with the regulations of the Ming army - he is a soldier, and it is instinctive to act according to his master's orders. Before, he had to guess what his master was thinking, but now it's better, how to march and how to fight. Fighting is all stipulated in the regulations.
Just follow the rules.
Although it is quite rigid.
But after the encounter with the Cossacks a few days ago.
Fan Baoyi suddenly discovered that his battalion was so capable of fighting!
These days with the range advantage of having a rifled gun in hand.
In the battle with the Russian Cossack reconnaissance cavalry, it can be said that they have the advantage!
After announcing the punishment for Class Three.
Fan Baoyi also announced rewards for several platoons and squads that were active in combat.
It ranges from third-class merit to second-class merit.
Military merit is not only beneficial in terms of promotion, but the greater benefit is the grant of land!
After dealing with these.
Fan Baoyi received the order from the brigade headquarters and led his troops to assemble!!
"brigadier!"
At the brigade headquarters, Fan Baoyi met the ridiculously young brigade commander Chen Liansheng.
This man who once served in the Qing army in the Green Camp, and later switched to the Ming army in the Battle of Jiangxi, was now promoted to colonel due to his meritorious service, and was put into the first brigade of the Zhengxi Dusi.
"How is it? Everything has been arranged? Is the military morale available?"
Fan Baoyi said hurriedly: "Rewards and punishments are clear, the morale of the army is stable, and we can fight!"
What Fan Baoyi said was not polite, but sincere.
When he was serving as an errand in the Qing army.
Cannon fodder and dangerous missions are driven by people like them.
But the credit always goes to the people with the background named Eight Banners.
Now in the Ming army, I dare not say that such a situation does not exist, but announcing rewards and punishments in front of the entire army can still greatly prevent the occurrence of false claims of credit.
"Collect the troops, a large group is coming from the opposite side, it should be a Russian infantry brigade and a Cossack cavalry regiment!"
"Chief of Staff, the Rakshasa ghosts have camped about twenty miles away from us. Judging from the situation, they have almost brought out all the Irkutsk troops!"
At the General Staff Headquarters of the Zhengxidu Division, a staff officer was reporting to Chief of Staff Chen Dewang.
Jin Sanxin, the commander of the Western Capital Division, is now in Beidu.
Therefore, the important task of commanding operations naturally fell on Chen Dewang.
It's our responsibility.
"The whole army is going out. Is the investigation clear? What is the origin of the Rakshasa ghost here?"
"What is coming is a Russian infantry division. Judging from the designation, it should be the 11th Infantry Division of Tsarist Russia. It has three brigades, including two infantry brigades, a hunting brigade, and an artillery regiment. In addition to this infantry division, In addition, there is also a Cossack cavalry regiment, with a total strength of more than 20,000."
"The brigade that is advancing forward now is an infantry brigade. It has no brigade artillery. It is all musketeers. There is also a Cossack cavalry regiment to cooperate with it."
"No artillery? The Russians don't deploy artillery below the brigade and regiment level?"
A staff officer said strangely.
"The Rakshasa Ghosts use infantry divisions as their basic combat units, and their artillery is a force directly under the jurisdiction of the division headquarters."
Chen Dewang couldn't help but smile when he heard this.
"Although I don't know where these Rakshasa ghosts got the courage, but since they dare to march forward with a brigade, we don't need to be polite! Order Chen Liansheng to defeat the cavalry brigade, and then go around to the base camp of the Rakshasa ghosts To the side and rear, station yourself at this position! Be ready to flank the opponent with your headquarters at any time!"
Chen Dewang gave the order loudly.
A dragoon brigade stared at the Russian retreat.
By then they will know what it means to have no way to heaven and no way to earth!
"Is that the Chinese army? It looks pretty decent."
Anatoly, commander of the 1st Brigade of the 11th Infantry Division of the Russian Imperial Army, held up a telescope to observe the enemy opposite him.
His eyes remained fixed on the small-caliber mortar carried on the shoulders of some infantrymen.
"The Chinese's artillery firepower allocation is more reasonable than ours. Not only do they have battle-level heavy artillery, but the infantry battalions on the front line are equipped with supplementary artillery firepower!"
Anatole said with a frown.
"It seems that our opponent is not someone who is too easy to defeat!"
"Sir, it's okay. The final battle will still have to be solved with bullets and bayonets. We only need to endure two rounds of artillery fire on our line infantry to reach the firing range with them!"
The person speaking was Pernov, commander of the 5th Infantry Regiment of the 11th Infantry Division under the 1st Brigade.
At this time on the battlefield in Europe.
Chasseurs and artillery harassed, line infantry lined up to shoot, and then bayonet charges.
Such tactics have formed a fixed routine.
Although the bombardment artillery technology that emerged on the Eastern battlefield has begun to be used on a small scale in Europe, it has not attracted the attention of those officers who have been trained in the line infantry era for a period of time. The change is painful because it means As a result, a large number of officers from the old era will be eliminated.
after all.
In Europe, there is no completely new army like the Ming Army, and there is no traditional baggage to bind them.
There was no motivation to make changes like the Qing court was facing an existential crisis.
So although the bombardment gun has been around for three or four years.
But because Europe has always stayed in the era of "wooden tail fin bombs".
The range is much shorter than firing solid bullets.
The advantages of the bombardment gun were not fully realized.
Therefore, no tactical changes were made.
"Why do I feel like I'm back a few years ago?"
Fan Baoyi, who was observing the Russian military formation with a telescope, muttered a few words.
This tactic of queuing to kill, with the hunters at the front and the line infantry at the back, proved to be unsuitable for warfare in the bombardment era as early as two years ago.
Right now.
The command semaphore was waving, very quickly.
The marching drums sounded intensively.
"Take the squad as a unit, form skirmishers, advance a hundred steps! Cover the mortar company for artillery fire!"
Fan Baoyi immediately shouted loudly after seeing the flag message from the brigade headquarters in the distance.
soon.
Groups of soldiers in red military uniforms kicked their muskets, hunched their waists slightly, and moved forward quickly in small columns.
And accompanying the infantry is the frontline mortar company!
Unlike the Russian infantry, which was slowly arranged in tight horizontal formations with a distance of about twenty meters between the horizontal formations, the Ming army advanced much faster.
soon.
The Russian frontline chasseurs entered the firing range of the musketeers of the first battalion of the right brigade of the former army!
Fan Baoyi held a musket and loudly issued an order to kill the Russian hunters using a small slope as a cover.
soon.
The soldiers of the first battalion of a platoon bent forward quickly. When they were about 150 steps away from the enemy's hunting line, they held their muskets flat in a half-crouching position and set the sights of the muskets on them. He landed on the body of a Russian chasseur one hundred and fifty steps away.
With the first gunshot.
The hunters who were advancing in a skirmish line in front were preparing to harass the Ming army's line infantry. Although the Ming army now had no line infantry at all, the Russian army's hunters, who seemed a little at a loss now, were quickly attacked head-on.
Bang bang bang!
Under heavy gunfire.
The Russian army's hunters were quickly named and killed one by one on the open Mobei prairie.
The range advantage of the rifled gun in the hands of the Ming army was fully utilized!
(End of chapter)
