At first, when they saw that Luo Zhixue attached great importance to bird guns, they thought they would distribute the captured bird guns directly to various ministries.
Many Ming armies these days, especially those with more complex terrain such as inland and southern areas, actually do this. Basically, it is a few shield bearers plus a few spearmen plus one or two musketeers or Archers form a combat team of more than ten people.
It is quite useful for small-scale battles in complex terrain, such as fighting a dozen bandits, Japanese pirates, etc.
But it’s not good for fighting large-scale regular armies. If this kind of tactic without strict formation encounters a large-scale regular army, you will be dead if they just line up and charge, let alone the regular army and cavalry...
Therefore, the Qi army had a good time playing mandarin duck formations in the south, but after going north, they directly switched to vehicle formations and cavalry. As for pure infantry, they were only used as auxiliary forces.
What is a vehicle formation? In fact, it is a bunch of carriages equipped with a large number of light artillery. It has good maneuverability and good firepower. It can form a formation to protect itself when encountering enemy cavalry. It can be said to be offensive and defensive, and it can deal with the cold weapon era. Cavalry is very useful.
If the cavalry cooperates, the effect will be even better. Therefore, after the Qi army went north, it once shocked the northern grasslands and ensured the security of the north for decades.
As for why the Jiliao border army later failed to conquer the East, there are too many reasons to analyze carefully, but they can all be summed up in one sentence: The Ming Dynasty had its own national conditions!
But the series of military defeats at the end of the Ming Dynasty really had little to do with things like equipment, technology, and tactics.
When it comes to weapons, they have Hongyi cannons and blunderbuss, and they have continued to lead the Dongduo in the field of firearms for a long time, even now in the seventh year of Chongzhen.
As for cold weapons, let alone cold weapons. The Ming Dynasty was a dynasty that unified the Central Plains. It could produce a large number of cold weapons, armor, bows, and arrows with just a lot of effort...
But they still lost.
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Nowadays, the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Battalion is essentially from the Yulin Frontier Army. Naturally, the dozens of people they have come into contact with are also the same as the officers and soldiers, so some of the infantry tactics they have developed before are similar to those of the officers and soldiers.
However, what Luo Zhixue is doing now is obviously different from the tactics of the government and the army, which naturally arouses the curiosity and suspicion of Blind Wang, An Yongduo and others.
After all, they have never been exposed to this kind of formation method, so it is normal to be worried about this new tactic.
But Luo Zhixue didn't intend to explain to them at the meeting now. He just continued: "Huang Dingquan is appointed as the fifth sentry officer!"
Huang Dingquan, the former acting deputy sentry officer of the baggage camp, concurrently serves as the captain of the second team. This person was also promoted by Luo Zhixue himself. He performed quite well in this battle and did not pull any strings, so Luo Zhixue also planned to take this person. He became the sentry officer of the fifth sentry post.
Since Luo Zhixue made the decision directly and it didn't have much impact on everyone present, they naturally had no objection.
After many arrangements were made, the meeting officially ended, and Luo Zhixue called Huang Dingquan in again to explain.
Explain what?
Naturally, he was told how to train the fifth whistle in detail. Huang Dingquan didn't understand this stuff.
The establishment of the fifth post was Luo Zhixue's attempt to reform the infantry tactics of the Baoxiang Battalion, which was to use musketeers and spearmen as the main infantry in the army, coupled with a small number of sword-shielders and archers.
The original intention of this reform was not because of how powerful the musketeers were. In fact, Luo Zhixue knew very well that the combat effectiveness of the musketeers who now use matchlock guns such as blunderbuss is actually just that.
If possible, Luo Zhixue actually wants enough archers now.
But the problem is that there are not enough archers in the Baoxiang camp!
Because most of the archers in the Baoxiang camp are actually temporary cavalry, there are actually not many infantry archers in the left, center, right armies and the supply camp. There are only thirty or forty people in total. Such a small number of people is not enough. It cannot support the long-range fire support of hundreds of infantry of the entire Baoxiang Battalion.
And Luo Zhixue cannot always use the cavalry as archers. It would be too wasteful. He must find a way to strengthen the long-range firepower of the infantry.
It's not that he hasn't thought about increasing the proportion of archers, but the training time for archers is too long. It is impossible for Baoxiang Camp to train a large number of archers on its own in a short time. This source can only rely on various sources. Captured.
At the same time, the manufacturing cycle of strong military bows is also too long, often taking several years. Luo Zhixue simply can't wait.
As a result, Luo Zhixue could only put the long-range firepower of the infantry on the muskets.
reason?
On a!
The training of musketeers is very simple. If you pull out a civilian husband with moderate physical fitness and train him for a few months, you can basically pull him out to fight.
The creation of the musket is relatively simple. It does not require any additional technical innovation on his part. Blacksmith Song and his son can do it directly.
Many reasons contributed to Luo Zhixue's determination to transfer the infantry's long-range firepower from archers to muskets.
Of course, existing archers will continue to be used, and archers will continue to be collected for enhancement and supplementation.
Whether it is musketeers or archers, Luo Zhixue attaches great importance to it and will not directly eliminate archers just because he decided to develop musketeers.
In the following time, Luo Zhixue and Huang Dingquan talked in depth for more than an hour, and finally finalized the basic training issues for the fifth whistle.
The fifth post will adopt the layout of spearmen in the middle and musketeers on both sides. The ratio of the two sides is one to one.
The spearmen in the middle are temporarily arranged in six columns, each column has ten people, and there is a team on each side, that is, thirty musketeers.
In this way, the strength of this fifth sentry post will be more than the previous four infantry sentry posts. Not counting the officers and messengers, there are only 120 line soldiers.
If fighting, just go up in formation, with the musketeers in the center as the main force in close combat, protecting the musketeers. After the musketeers fire from a distance, even in the melee stage, they can retreat slightly under the cover of the spearmen and continue to fire.
But for the fifth sentry to play its intended role, the cooperation of cavalry and artillery is actually indispensable.
If you rely solely on infantry, the enemy on the opposite side will be finished if they pull out artillery. Not to mention the artillery, if the cavalry bypasses the flanks or simply rears, the infantry array will also be finished.
On the battlefield of the seventeenth century, infantry, artillery, and cavalry were a trinity, and none could be missing.
As for the cavalry, there is no need to worry about Baoxiang Camp. There are hundreds of cavalry outposts, most of them are elites who are good at volley shooting, and a few are old thieves who have been fighting for many years.
As for artillery, today's artillery sentries are still a bit inferior.
But the 600-pound long cannon built by Blacksmith Song and his team is expected to be completed next month, so there won't be much of a problem by then.
The four heavy supply battalions on the left, center and right were reorganized into posts one to four, and a fifth post was established. At the same time, the artillery team was upgraded to an artillery post.
This was the main reform within the Baoxiang Camp implemented by Luo Zhixue after the Second Battle of Songshan.
The reason why we chose to promote it just after the Second Battle of Songshan was to take advantage of the time when Luo Zhixue's personal prestige was at a relatively high level and the morale of the army was good at the time when he had defeated the incoming Ming army.
If this were normal times, Luo Zhixue would still be worried about other things happening.
The reorganization of the four outposts in the army is not a big problem. There is no need to change the organization. Just change the names, and then add new recruits and a batch of cold weapons and equipment.
The fifth sentry training will be more difficult. After all, it is the first time to do these things, so it will be more troublesome. However, Huang Dingquan, who was promoted to the fifth sentry officer, is very motivated. The next day, he started to lead his captains. I continue to think about how to train.
Because there were relatively large vacancies after reorganization, and there were indeed many Ming Army prisoners of war who had a strong desire to surrender to thieves, Luo Zhixue also selected some Ming Army prisoners of war to be incorporated into them.
When selecting prisoners of war from the Ming army, the basic principles were voluntariness and physical fitness.
Luo Zhixue would not force people to surrender to thieves if they were not willing, so he would just let them stay and work in the prisoner-of-war camp. Anyway, there were a lot of things for them to do in the Baoxiang camp, whether it was clearing wasteland for farming or building bridges and paving roads. All require a lot of labor.
It's just that those prisoners of war who were originally county warriors and civilian husbands were not very motivated. They would rather work hard every day in the prisoner of war camp and not have enough to eat, rather than surrender to thieves and sell their lives.
On the contrary, those soldiers who mainly recruited soldiers were more willing to surrender to the thieves. Basically, one-third of them expressed their intention to join the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp family almost immediately after surrendering, and another one-third After several days of being a prisoner of war, people also expressed their willingness to fight to defend the flowers and plants of Funiu Mountain.
Why is there such a situation?
Because those county warriors and civilian husbands are basically local people from Lushan County who were temporarily recruited by the government. These people are actually ordinary people. While they are not willing to work hard with their heads in their belts, they also have more worries.
But those soldiers didn't have too many worries. They were all recruited soldiers, and they were recruited from other places. One person had enough to eat and the whole family was not hungry. There was no psychological burden. On the premise that they were not selling their lives to whomever they sold their lives to, they were willing to surrender to thieves. There is nothing objectionable about it, so there are more soldiers willing to surrender to the thieves.
Coupled with a small number of county braves and civilian husbands who were willing to surrender to the thieves, there were more than 200 prisoners of war willing to surrender to the thieves.
After these people are dispersed and assigned to various departments, they can almost fill the vacancies.
And when Luo Zhixue was reorganizing in Songshan, Wang Jida, who had finally escaped from the mountain under the protection of his personal followers, was also thinking about how to explain to his superiors.
The stupid Terushi told his superiors that he would definitely be doomed, and even if he did well, he would be dismissed from office.
So we have to come up with a version that confuses right and wrong. If we tell the story well and operate it properly later, not only will we not be punished, but we may even be promoted to a higher level.
Wang Jida doesn't know how to fight, but when it comes to writing articles and stories, Wang Jida is still very confident.
He is a dignified top three Jinshi, from the county examination to the palace examination, and all the way through the imperial examination. He has done countless scholars with just one brush to reach his current height.
Nowadays, it is easy for Wang Jida to write an article to confuse right and wrong and just tell a story!
