In this exercise of Baoxiang Camp, all tactical actions were arranged in advance.
At the beginning of the battle, it is assumed that the enemy takes the initiative to attack and is intensively killed by our own artillery, bows and arrows, and muskets. After being intercepted by the powerful firepower of our own infantry, the enemy's offensive momentum is blocked. At this time, the cavalry is dispatched to carry out mounted attacks, further causing Confusion in enemy formations.
Finally, the infantry moved and completely overwhelmed the enemy. The cavalry then launched a charge to harvest the heads.
During this process, each unit needs to conduct tactical maneuvers in strict accordance with the plan.
You want to ask why the enemy did not have long-barreled artillery and launched artillery fire on the infantry formation of the Baoxiang camp, why the enemy foolishly took the initiative to attack, and why our cavalry was not intercepted by the enemy's cavalry when it attacked twice.
It's an exercise, there are so many reasons.
If so much is required, this exercise will not be possible, and a special confrontation exercise will have to be carried out.
However, confrontation exercises are not the goal of today's exercise. The purpose of today's Baoxiang Camp exercise is to test the recent training results of each unit.
See if they can accurately execute various tactical actions as ordered.
Whether in the age of cold weapons or the age of firearms, for an army, whether the formation is tight and whether it can execute various tactical actions according to orders is very important, and it is even the basis of combat effectiveness.
No, after watching the exercise, Luo Zhixue at the front said to the deputy cavalry sentry officer An Yongduo, who also served as the director of the staff department: "This exercise is considered a success. It can be seen that the training of each department has been hard work."
Although today's exercise seemed quite satisfactory, Luo Zhixue was very satisfied because he saw that the formation changes of each unit were very smooth and there was no mess, which was already very good.
After all, most of the soldiers in the various departments of the Baoxiang Battalion were new recruits recruited in recent months, except for the mutinous officers and soldiers, old thieves and surrendered officers and soldiers.
The longest training for these recruits is only about three months, and the shortest training is only one month.
To be honest, it is quite difficult for these new recruits who have not been trained for a long time to follow the orders and follow the standard formations and carry out tactical maneuvers with their comrades.
After all, people these days are not the modern people of the later generations. The modern people of the later generations have had the experience of lining up in physical education classes, recess exercises and other occasions since they were young. They have also gone through several military trainings and are not familiar with such things as lining up. Not unfamiliar, even accustomed.
But these new recruits in the Baoxiang camp have no concept of lining up since they were young, and many of them even do not distinguish between left and right.
In order to allow them to line up quickly, Wang Xiazi and Anyongduo always carried whips when they were training in the early days.
When ordered to turn left, someone turned wrong and turned right instead, or simply didn't move and was whipped without saying a word.
When lining up, if someone takes three steps forward and someone takes two or four steps, it goes without saying that they will be whipped down immediately.
After the fight, there are often follow-up punishments, which are of a continuous nature. If a soldier makes a mistake, his team and others will be punished.
Under various high pressures, these recruits were forced to distinguish between left and right in the shortest possible time and learn to obey orders.
During this process, there were actually a few people who couldn't stand it anymore and clamored to stop serving as soldiers and wanted to quit. Often, these people would be treated as deserters and thrown directly into prisoner-of-war camps to work as coolies. A few would take the lead in making trouble, and those who made the trouble serious would be directly arrested. Cut it with one knife.
You took the Anjia food from the Baoxiang Camp and ate their three meals a day, but you couldn’t stand the suffering and wanted to quit?
There is nothing so good in the world.
Luo Zhixue and the others are not here to open a charity hall!
Luo Zhixue and the others spent a lot of effort to enable these new recruits to distinguish left and right clearly and know how to follow orders and perform basic tactical actions.
"We will continue to strengthen formation training in the future. We must ensure that no matter what the situation, all units can carry out various tactical actions according to orders."
Luo Zhixue continued to emphasize to An Yongduo beside him: "No matter what tactics or weapons are used, obeying orders is always the primary goal."
Anyong nodded and said: "My subordinates understand and will continue to formulate relevant training plans in the future."
After the cavalry sentry Wang Xiazi, artillery sentry Zhang Chenglin, and the five infantry sentry sentry officers who led the team to perform the exercise arrived one after another, Luo Zhixue also ordered these people one by one, emphasizing to them the importance of formation and discipline.
In particular, Huang Dingquan, the fifth sentry officer, emphasized the importance of formation.
"The tactics of the fifth post are different from the other posts. You use musketeers on a large scale. When changing formations, you must consider the use of musketeers. It also tests the integrity of the formation. These aspects You have to work harder."
Huang Dingquan nodded carefully after hearing this.
Huang Dingquan has no education, and he is not even a veteran. He used to be just an ordinary farmer, and his best thing was farming.
After joining the Baoxiang Camp, he gained the attention of Luo Zhixue because of his hard work, high obedience to orders, and his lack of rigidity in doing things, and was promoted to the fifth sentry officer.
However, even though he became the sentry officer of the fifth sentry, he still didn't know much about how to lead troops, how to train troops to fight, and tactics and tactics.
Even in the past few months, he has been studying behind Wang Xiazi and other old thieves who came from the rebels, but to be honest, he still doesn't understand many things, especially in terms of tactics.
For example, for the new tactics used by the fifth post, he also trained according to the methods given to him by Luo Zhixue, but why he trained like this, he still couldn't figure out...
He just followed the script and followed the methods given to him by Luo Zhixue.
However, this is actually the reason why Luo Zhixue selected him as the fifth sentry officer. It is because this person does not have too many thoughts about himself. He will simply train according to the tactics given to him by Luo Zhixue, and will not think about changes midway. .
Luo Zhixue attaches great importance to the fifth post. He hopes to use this new infantry post to test new tactics and cultivate a group of grassroots officers who know how to use new tactics, laying a talent foundation for the subsequent large-scale use of new tactics.
To a certain extent, the current fifth post is the teaching post in the Baoxiang Camp.
Therefore, Luo Zhixue does not need and does not want others to compare too many things blindly during the training process of the fifth post.
After the exercise, Luo Zhixue took his own soldiers and left to do other things, while the officers also took their troops back to their barracks or to their new stations.
Taking advantage of the opportunity of this exercise, Luo Zhixue simply rotated the garrison of each unit.
After the rotation, there are three main garrison directions of the Baoxiang Battalion, one is towards Songshan, the other is towards Sanshui Village, and the other is towards Niulu Village in the east.
The Songshan Village defense line will be garrisoned by Zhang Chenglin's artillery sentry, Lin Dongsheng's first sentry, and Wang Dazhuang's second sentry.
There is also an infantry post in Songshan Village, namely Huang Dingquan's fifth post and Wang Xiazi's cavalry post, which were newly established. They are currently not full of personnel and have not arranged for the chief officer's baggage post to be garrisoned.
The above two places can actually be regarded as one, because Songshan Village is only more than four miles away from the Songshan Defense Line. If you travel on foot, you can get there in two quarters of an hour.
Xu He's third post was sent to the village of Niulu Village to the east of the mountain for garrison. Niulu Village itself was just an ordinary village, but it guarded a trail into the mountains from the eastern peripheral area. At the same time, Another trail roughly located in the northeast is not far from Niulu Village, which can barely be regarded as a strategic location.
Put a sentry here to monitor and defend the two east mountain trails at the same time.
The remaining fourth post was sent to garrison in Sanshui Village in the north of the mountain. Sanshui Village itself is located in the north of the mountain. It can also monitor the movements of a trail into the mountain in the north. In addition, it can also control some villages in the north. .
It can be seen from this deployment that Luo Zhixue has shifted his focus to the Songshan Village area.
The total number of troops in other directions is only two sentries, and they also need to be dispersed and stationed, monitor the trails, intercept the enemy's small-scale enemy forces, and also need to suppress the villages within the defense zone.
However, in Songshan Village and the Songshan Defense Line, there are three infantry sentries, a cavalry sentry, and an artillery sentry. In addition, there is an under-manned baggage sentry. Together with Luo Zhixue's personal troops, the total strength reaches 600 people.
Moreover, a new recruit training camp has been set up in Songshan Village, and there are currently more than a hundred people in it undergoing recruit training.
The Baoxiang Camp began in the early days of expansion during Sun's founding era. The expansion model was very simple, with each unit recruiting new soldiers and training them on their own.
After such a period of expansion, Luo Zhixue found that this expansion training method was too inefficient. More importantly, it could not guarantee the quality of training, and it also lurked huge risks.
The reason for the low efficiency and the inability to guarantee the quality of training is that each ministry trains new recruits at different levels. Some are better trained, while others are poorly trained. In order to ensure better training quality and efficiency, Luo Zhixue simply trains each ministry to The grass-roots officers with relatively high training levels are selected from the army and asked to rotate part-time jobs in the recruit camps to serve as recruit instructors.
As for the risks!
Just look at Luo Zhixue's supply camp before and you will know.
At first, there were only a few people in the transport camp. Later, Sun Chengli asked Luo Zhixue to recruit new soldiers to expand on his own. Sun Chengli was still keeping an eye on the first batch, so he only recruited 30 people, and the second batch later only recruited 30 people.
However, when Sun Chengli led his army to attract the Ming army to the west, Luo Zhixue quietly recruited troops on his own and expanded the size of the supply camp to a hundred people.
Subsequently, he recruited dozens of people from the surrendered prisoners of war under the Tianhu Division. During the first battle of Songshan, some young men were also urgently recruited to supplement them, and some of the outstanding ones were directly incorporated into the supply camp. inside.
When Sun Chengli led his army out of the mountain, Luo Zhixue had only more than 80 troops. However, after Sun Chengli led his army back, the number of troops under Luo Zhixue's control had reached more than 200.
If Sun Chengli had not died of illness at the time, he might have had a problem with Luo Zhixue, and all kinds of precautions would have arisen.
When Luo Zhixue did this, he naturally didn't want his direct subordinates to imitate him and follow his lead.
So taking advantage of this opportunity, he directly finalized the rated establishment of each ministry and began unified recruitment training. After the training of new recruits was completed, he would add them to each ministry.
To prevent the general under his command from recruiting troops to expand on his own, if he is not careful, he will send out thousands of troops to scare him...
