Jin Yixiao has a lot of research on tactics on weekdays, and after thinking about it carefully, he said loudly: "Tactics training should teach troops to use the near and far, to wait for work, and to be hungry; In formation and tactical training, troops should be taught how to change from a circular formation to a phalanx, from a kneeling posture to a standing posture, from advancing to stopping, from left to right, from forward to backward, from scattered to convergent, and from assembling to distancing. 79 After carefully training in various tactics, formations, and tactical changes, weapons can be distributed to the troops. This is the duty of the general. ”

Yang Zheng nodded and said, "General Jin really has a lot of research on combat methods, and he said it very well!" “

Zhang Yi snorted disdainfully, looking disapproving.

Yang Zheng continued to ask: "Then what should be the training method of gathering the whole army of Ji Cheng to make the soldiers proficient in combat skills?" ”

This Jin Yixiao studied the art of war on weekdays, and the formation was broken, and said that the training of soldiers was really not as good as Zhang Yi, but when he heard Yang Zheng ask this, he couldn't beat it.

Yang Zheng turned his head and asked Zhang Yi again: "How does General Zhang think he should train?" ”

Zhang Yi had a lot of experience in this, and glanced at Jin Yi proudly and said with a smile: "Whoever commands the three armies must use the golden drum to command." This is to make the actions of the whole army uniform. The commander must first clearly tell the officers and men how to practice, and repeatedly explain it clearly, and then train them to operate their weapons, familiarize themselves with combat movements, and how to act according to the changes in the command signals of the various flags. Therefore, when training the army, it is necessary to conduct individual training first, and after the individual training is completed, ten people will train together; Ten people learn tactics, and after the coach is completed, then 100 people practice together; 100 people learn tactics, and after the coach is completed, 1,000 people will practice together; Thousands of people learn tactics, and after the coach is completed, then 10,000 people practice together; 10,000 people learn tactics, and after the instructor is completed, the whole army will practice together; The whole army is trained in the method of combat, and after the training is completed, the joint training of the million-strong army is carried out. In this way, a powerful army can be formed and invincible in the world. ”

"Well said!" Yang Zheng nodded and said, "But General Zhang didn't think about it, if you combine your training method with General Jin's formation, what would you do?" ”

The two were stunned for a moment, then frowned, and then thought about each other for a while, and seemed to have some understanding.

"The Admiral understands!" Jin smiled and bowed and hugged his fists.

"I understand, too?" Zhang Yi responded with a solemn fist.

Yang Zheng said: "The formation has the benefits of the formation, and the fight also has the advantage of fighting, but an army does not know how to march and arrange, relying only on a brute force tent, it may be able to win for a while, but it can't win for a lifetime, the reason why the Yuejia army created by Yue Wangye made the golden vulture issue the words "shaking the mountain is easy, shaking the Yuejia army is difficult" is because the Yuejia army not only strictly trains the soldiers to fight, but also practices the marching formation, so as to win again and again! “

Jin smiled and Zhang Yi thought about it carefully, isn't that the truth?

Yang Zheng said: "It's the same way around, it's good to march and set up a formation, but those soldiers lack training and don't have the ability to fight on the battlefield, and in the end, they will suffer a big loss on the battlefield?" “

The two of them nodded more than once they said this, and even Gao Hang, who was following behind the three of them, nodded secretly: "This General Yang is young, I can't imagine that in addition to training soldiers, even persuaders are so capable, no wonder Shang Shugan made him a general!" Hey, can't people be more dissatisfied than others? “

After talking for a while, he arrived at the ancient city of Hangzhou, just now he didn't see it really on the outside, at this time he looked closely, Yang Zheng found that the wall of the entire city wall was wrapped with blue bricks, thick and solid, and the city gates were opened on all sides of the east, west, north and south. On the city gate, there are city towers, arrow towers, gate towers, towering volleys, and the momentum is magnificent. There is an urn city between the city tower and the arrow tower. There is a corner tower at each of the four corners of the city, and the two cannons are placed on the fort of the Zhumen, facing the outside of the city gate, and the black barrels look very scary.

Yang Zheng had seen the artillery on the Dagu Fort in later generations, and it was not the first time he had seen it, so his expression was still a little calm.

From time to time, soldiers patrolled around the artillery, but it was also very strict.

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Yang Zheng nodded secretly and took the lead in walking over, Zhang Yi, Jin Yixiao, and Gao Hang hurriedly followed.

Xiao Yue really has no interest in these cannons, and she doesn't want to see them, but everyone goes, and she doesn't go alone, which is too obvious, although she has a man's clothes, after all, she is a woman dressed as a man, it really can't be fake, it can't be fake, it's not true, I'm afraid that people will see it and just reluctantly follow it.

Yang Zheng saw that these two cannons were similar to the cannons he saw on the Dagu Fort, and after looking at them a few times, he was not curious, and he couldn't help but secretly laugh at how strange he was.

After looking at it for a while, Yang Zheng asked, "Are there any soldiers in the army who can use it?" ”

Jin Yixiao and Zhang Yi looked at each other, their faces showed embarrassment, and they were silent.

Seeing that the two of them didn't speak, Yang Zheng turned his head and glanced at the faces of the two, and saw that the two of them looked strange, so he paused and said, "You shouldn't be able to use it, right?" “

Jin Yi smiled and said with a red face: "General Hui, none of the soldiers in the army have ever touched a firearm, so no one will use it-?" “

"Oh my god, no one will use it, so what are you doing here, scaring people?"

Zhang Yi coughed twice and said, "I heard that this thing is very powerful, and this is what the enemy is most afraid of, so the lowly job does have this plan!" ”

"Bluffing people with cannons, do you really dare to think about it?" Yang Zheng touched the beads of sweat on his forehead and said in his heart.

No one uses a cannon, then there is one less sharp weapon, if you don't know how powerful this thing is, it's just that, you know, there is no need for a cannon, put it here, it will be known in the future, and it will not be laughed to death! “

Yang Zheng felt that he couldn't afford to lose this person, so he didn't say a word with a gloomy face, and his eyes only focused on the two cannons.

Jin Yixiao and Zhang Yi also felt that it was too embarrassing to see that Yang Zheng's face was not good-looking, how dare they speak, and they accompanied him carefully.

Yang Zheng looked at it for a while and found that the structure of this cannon was much simpler than that of later generations, similar to his Dagu cannon in later generations, and more precisely, it was strikingly similar to the Hongyi cannon in the late Ming Dynasty.

After watching about a cup of tea, Yang Zheng's heart suddenly moved, "In later generations, he read a lot of books on this field because he was interested in firearms, and the artillery on the Dagu Fort that he read the most was the firearms of the late Ming Dynasty, and he also went to Fujian to see the artillery, and under the introduction of some special personnel, he also knew some skills to use. ”

"Looks like the need to give it a try?" Yang Zheng squinted his eyes and looked at it, these two guns should be the Ming Dynasty's self-made large-caliber firecrackers from the caliber point of view, these firecrackers are exactly the same as these Hongyi cannons in principle, they are all front-loading smoothbore fire door ignition type, but the specific ones are very different. In the early Ming Dynasty, most of the guns were made of copper, the inner chamber was trumpet-shaped, the barrel was thin, and the barrel was too short for its caliber, and its appearance was basically the same as the earliest existing Yuan Dynasty "bowl mouth gun". Compared with the Hongyi cannon, this kind of gunpowder is less loaded, and the gunpowder gas is not well sealed, so the firing range is short, in addition, it is easy to overheat, and the rate of fire is also slow, although it is not easy to explode with copper as the material, but the cost is high (copper is the metal for minting currency), and copper is too soft, every shot will cause the cannon chamber to expand, the shooting accuracy and range drop very quickly, and the life as a weapon is too short, and the only advantage is light weight. In front of the Hongyi cannon, which weighed thousands of pounds at every turn, the fire gun in the early Ming Dynasty was really "a small witch".

After looking at it for a while, I found that the inner chambers of the two cannons were trumpet-shaped, the barrels were thin, and the barrels were too short for their caliber, which was a little different from the long barrels of the guns on the Dagu Fort seen in later generations, the walls of the tubes were very thick, and the muzzles to the tail of the guns were gradually thickened, but the principle of the whole gunpowder burning from high to bottom was still about the same.

Jin Yixiao and Zhang Yi have been looking at Yang Zheng from the side, seeing that he sometimes frowns, sometimes stretches his brows, and more often the corners of his mouth are smiling, and the two don't know what he is thinking and dare not say more.

Xiao Yue on the side glanced at him a few times, and said in her heart: "This bad guy is smiling, I don't know what the hell he is doing, don't you want to shoot a cannon?" “

She guessed right, Lord Yang really wanted to fight, and he wanted to.

Yang Zheng groped for a while, and basically figured out the principle of these two cannons, these two cannons are equipped with cylindrical lugs on both sides of the center of gravity of the gun body, and the cannon can use this as the axis to adjust the firing angle and change the firing range with the amount of gunpowder; It is equipped with a crosshair and a light gate, and the trajectory is calculated according to the parabola, and the accuracy is very high, as long as the gunpowder is filled and controlled, and the gunpowder gas is sealed, it is enough to launch it when the ignition is ignited! “

"Is there gunpowder in General Kim's army?" Yang Zheng shouted loudly.

Jin Yixiao had already guessed Yang Zheng's intentions, and said with some hesitation: "General, you are a general in the army, I'm afraid you don't need to come in person about this artillery fight, right?" ”

Yang Zheng said with a smile: "Nothing else, do you really need me to come to this cannon in person?" ”

After what he said just now, Zhang Yi attached great importance to this new general, and when he heard that Yang Zheng was going to shoot the cannon himself, he shook his head and said: "No, no, my lord is a general sent by the imperial court, and he is a person who is very valued by Lord Shangshu, I think the diameter of this cannon is extremely weak, and it is very easy to have problems, and the cannon has no eyes, if the adult has something to lose, wouldn't we be sinners of the imperial court?" ”

Note: The Hongyi cannon was introduced to China in the late Ming Dynasty and is also known as the red-coated cannon. In fact, at that time, the Ming Dynasty called all the front-loading smoothbore cannons imported from the West as Hongyi cannons, and Ming Dynasty officials often covered these cannons with red cloth, so they were falsely called "red clothes". According to research, only a small amount of Hongyi cannons imported by the Ming Dynasty at that time were imported from the Dutch East India Company, and later became hostile to the Dutch because of the Taiwan issue, most of which were traded with the Portuguese in Macao, and the Ming Dynasty was in huge demand at that time, and the Portuguese also sold British shipborne cannons to China as middlemen.