Chapter 854: Comprehending in Yourself
With two wild boars at the bottom, Zhao Yu's energy was no longer in a hurry to get the prey, and this burst of gunfire had already scared the surrounding beasts away. His principle is that it is enough to eat, and he can't let go of this hot day, so he doesn't have to kill more, and then a few people beat a few pheasants and rabbits, and then turned back when they saw that the sky was getting dark. By the time we arrived, it was already sunset, and the place had been cleaned up, and several sheds had been erected and firewood piles had been erected.
The prey was brought back from someone to peel the skin and remove the internal organs, Zhao Yu washed his hands and face, personally divided the prey into several pieces, and smeared the flavor with the condiments he brought. Only then did the campfire be lit, and the prey was put on a wooden fork and roasted on the fire. The wild boar meat quickly emitted an alluring aroma under the scorching flames, which also attracted everyone around the fire.
"You're all sharpshooters in your respective armies, right?" Everyone didn't dare to talk to the little emperor wantonly, and a few whispered about His Majesty's marksmanship, feeling incredible, Zhao Yu listened and turned the roasting fork and asked.
"Compared with Your Majesty, how dare you call yourself a sharpshooter!" One of the guards chuckled.
"You both have good marksmanship, and you can shoot down the bird with one shot, which not many people can do." Zhao Yu twisted his face and said to him.
"The small one can shoot down the bird, but because the bamboo chicken has just flown up, the speed is slow, and the altitude is low, and the distance is only thirty paces. His Majesty struck the boar on the head at a distance of fifty and eighty paces, respectively, but the small one could not. Another guard said.
"The subordinates saw that His Majesty suddenly stopped while running, and when he raised his gun, he hit it, and the gun hit, but I am afraid that the whole army will not be able to pick out another one!" Chen Fenglin said.
"Hehe, you have a good reputation, there are no less than 200,000 musketeers in our army, even if you choose one out of a hundred, you can choose thousands of sharpshooters, otherwise I will hold you accountable." Zhao Yu stood up and sprinkled some spices on the barbecue and said with a smile.
"To tell your majesty, when your subordinates are in the first division, they choose sharpshooters from the army to think that they are jumping, they do not have to join the queue, they can choose their own targets and shoot the enemy soldiers from a long distance. When they first took Jiankang, they put cold guns under the city, and the enemy army did not dare to take the lead, so they could only release arrows indiscriminately, and these two were among them! Chen Fenglin said.
"Oh, you're amazing, I'm ashamed that I have never shot an enemy on the battlefield!" Zhao Yu listened and bowed to the two of them.
"Your Majesty, how dare you be a little one." When the two saw this, they hurriedly got up and saluted.
"No need to be polite, sit down and talk!" Zhao Yu pressed his hand and asked them to sit down. In his heart, he nodded secretly, from ancient times to the present, excellent marksmen can be found in every army, even in the era of cold weapons, there is no shortage of sharpshooters who wear through the Yang at a hundred paces. They were often sent to the front as death squads to fight the enemy's outposts, and could shoot from great distances as they wished, intimidating the enemy mentally and spiritually. Especially in siege warfare, these marksmen often played a greater role, and they took on enemy soldiers and commanders at incredible distances.
"In the past, the little one also realized that his marksmanship was extraordinary, but today when I saw His Majesty's divine shooting, I realized that it was a frog at the bottom of the well." One of the guards said, "The little one can raise his gun and shoot it within thirty paces." Fifty paces away, you need to aim carefully, but it is difficult to point where to hit, eighty paces away is difficult to hit, and a hundred paces away depends on luck. The little one looks at His Majesty, but he can raise a gun from 80 steps away and shoot, and he doesn't need to aim carefully at all, and please give His Majesty a lesson or two! ”
"Look at you two are veterans too!" Zhao Yu looked the two people up and down.
"Your Majesty, the little Li Jin (Zhang Xian) is all Jing Yan's three-year military service!" The two guards saluted.
"Well, how did the instructor teach you to shoot when you first changed to muskets?" Zhao Yu asked.
"Your Majesty, the instructor told us that the crosshair, notch and eye should be three points and one line, and the gun and the target should be kept level, not too high or too low!" Li Jin said.
"Zhang Xian, since you are veterans, you must have taught new recruits to shoot, but have you ever found anything wrong with them when they shoot!" Zhao Yu listened and asked another person.
"Your Majesty, the first time the recruits fired at their bodies, they were all shooting into the sky!" Zhang Xian said with a smile.
"Why is that?" Zhao Hao smiled, and asked himself again, "When the musket is fired, it will produce recoil, which is no better than a bow and arrow as long as the body is stable, and it has to overcome recoil, and the recruits don't know how to adjust often, so the muzzle of the gun is involuntarily raised." ”
"Besides, you see ......" Zhao Yu picked up a stone and threw it forward, drawing an arc and falling into the puddle, and then said, "The bullet fired by the musket is actually the same, it seems to be straight, but it is actually an arc." When our troops were marching and shooting, they often used concentrated fire in order to defeat the enemy, but in order to ensure the accuracy of hits, they often fired at a distance of 40 to 60 paces. It is important to know that the effective range of our muskets is more than 150 paces, so the path of the bullet at this distance is almost straight, and there is no need to think about it. ”
"Your Majesty's intention is that the distance we march and shoot in formation is about fifty paces, so we will emphasize the three-point line and the straight body of the gun during training. If you go beyond this distance, you won't be able to shoot this way. Li Jin listened and pondered for a moment.
"Yes, that's exactly the reason, but why are there still so many people who are clearly aiming at their heads, but they can't hit the target? Because most of the recruits who have just finished training have little experience and neglect the role of recoil. You should know that when you shoot, there is little shaking, and the bullet doesn't know where it goes. Zhao Yu looked at the two of them and smiled, and when he saw them nodding and said, "So when aiming, you should pay attention to using different aiming methods at different distances, and you can't aim wherever you want!" ”
"The little ones are dull, please give your majesty advice!" The two of them listened to what His Majesty said, and asked anxiously.
"Your Majesty, don't sell the guanzi, and if your subordinates ask for a favor again, tell them, otherwise something will go wrong!" Zhao Mengjin interjected with a smile.
"It's really hard to say, everyone has different physical conditions with each person, and their understanding is also different, whether they can understand the truth depends on each person." Zhao Yu thought about it and said, "According to the general law, if you want to hit the enemy's head, aim at the chest within fifty steps and the shoulder within eighty steps. More than 100 steps are aimed at the knees, 150 steps are aimed at the head, and 200 steps are a foot above the head. This only refers to your experienced marksmen, but if the recruits are at forty paces, it is best to have them point eight paces above the ground to counteract the recoil of the muskets. ”
"So there are so many tricks to this!" Li Jin looked at Zhang Xian, then looked at the little emperor and said, "Before, I relied on the strength of my arms to control the musket and prevent the muzzle from jumping, but I didn't know that there were still skills available, which is really stupid!" ”
"It's good to understand the reasoning, and then try to explore more during training, gradually accumulate experience, and don't just do it." Zhao Hao admonished again.
"Your Majesty, how do you hit the target while running?" Li Jin asked again.
"This is a bit more complicated, there is a difference between hitting the enemy up the mountain and the enemy going down the mountain, which has a lot to do with the speed of the target's movement, and the bullet will also be affected by the wind speed when flying. And this requires you to calculate the amount of advance, the person running down the mountain, you have to aim at the front and bottom of the target, if it is level with it, when going down the mountain, its body will be empty. Zhao Yu said, "What I can teach you is to aim at the moment, as long as the target enters the area, you must shoot decisively, don't hesitate." ”
"Your Majesty, how do you reload quickly while running?" Zhang Xian pulled Li Jin back, and asked in a hurry.
"Hehe, this I really don't have any skills, only hard practice. Just think of an enemy on the other side aiming at you with a bow and arrow, and you have to load up your ammo and kill them before they can release their arrows to survive. If there is a slight mistake in it, then it is you who dies, and the speed will naturally be fast! Zhao Hao smiled.
"You all remember, what Your Majesty teaches is the kung fu of saving your life on the battlefield, you can live if you shoot one step before the enemy, and you will die if you are one step late." Zhao Mengjin nodded to a group of people and said.
"That's a good word, but you have to be able to endure the same hardships as Your Majesty. In order to practice this trick back then, His Majesty's left hand was pierced with sparse strips, and the body of the gun was stained red with blood, which was very unbearable. Chen Dun snorted coldly on the side.
"Hehe, in this way, you have also learned half-heartedly!" Chen Fenglin quipped.
"Alas, I haven't even practiced half-baked, otherwise I wouldn't be a follower!" Chen Dun sighed, glanced at the little emperor and said in frustration.
"Wouldn't it? Chen commanded the young talents, no one knows, and when he was in the first division, his marksmanship was unmatched! Chen Fenglin can be regarded as having watched Chen Dun grow up, and it is rare to see him so depressed, and he doesn't believe in authenticity.
"Those are all small carving insect skills, any one of them in the guard camp is better than my marksmanship, and I, the commander, dare not touch the gun in front of them!" Chen Dun nodded to the one or two guards accompanying him and said with a wry smile.
"Where is the commander so bad, you are much stronger than Lao Qiu in the room!" A guard looked at Chen Dun, then turned to the pork that was dripping with oil and said with a smile.
"I dare to entertain this official, I can't cure you, you are on duty all night tonight, close your eyes and see how I clean you up!" Chen Dun was a little angry.
"Okay, okay, with that pork leg for supper, I admit it too!" The guard was not annoyed or anxious, and pointed to the pork leg on the grill and smiled.
"Don't make any more fuss, when the meat is cooked, plug your mouths!" Zhao Yu said and beckoned Chen Dun to lift the roast fork down and beckoned everyone to eat. And he roasted a few bamboo chickens and running rabbits, and added firewood before sitting down.
'Wow......' Everyone had been running for a day, and they were all hungry, and half a wild boar was thirty or forty pounds, and there were bones left after a lot of effort, but at this time there was a howl of a wild beast.
"Hurry up!" Chen Dun threw the half-gnawed bone in his hand and jumped up and shouted loudly, and everyone also took out torches from the fire to ignite the firewood piles that had already been erected around them, while others also picked up their guns and protected Zhao Hao's side.
"Hey, there's quite a few!" Zhao Yu took the bones and dotted the surrounding hill slopes. Attracted by the smell of blood and the smell of roasted meat, the beasts were all attracted to it, but they were deterred by the burning bonfire, and he looked at the green eyes in the forest, at least twenty or thirty beasts lurking around.
"Your Majesty, don't stay away from the ring of fire, these beasts are hungry!" Zhao Mengjin blocked the little emperor who still wanted to move forward, and said with a frown.
"Okay, I'll sit in the circle!" Zhao Yu retreated into the circle and said helplessly. He knew that although he had grown up, in the eyes of Zhao Mengjin and Chen Fenglin, he was still the little chubby man who couldn't run, and he had to take care of it all the time, worried that he would cause some trouble if he was not careful.
Zhao Hao sat in front of the wooden house, looking at the more than ten bonfires lit around him, watching Zhao Mengjin commanding everyone to wait with guns, and looking at the beasts that were hovering far away outside the fire circle, his heart suddenly moved, isn't this just a car formation! The bonfire is the chariot on which the people rely as a barrier, and the guards are the warriors who defend the chariot, and the beast is the enemy cavalry waiting to move.
Thinking of this, Zhao Yu felt that the actual combat principles of chariots and cavalry were basically the same, basically using chariots to form a wall-like formation, so as to prevent the rush of the opponent's cavalry, protect the long-range projection troops in the formation, and kill and injure the opponent's cavalry in the defense.
Liu Yu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was to rely on the river with his back, form a formation with chariots, and then cooperate with multiple arms such as foot, horse, bow and crossbow and even warships. The large chariot formation of the Czech peasant army was also formed in a chariot formation to prevent the surprise attack of heavy knights, and bows and arrows and artillery were deployed in the array, so that it could effectively attack the feudal lord army with knights as the main force.
The style of play used by Wei Qing in the Battle of Mobei was to first use a car formation to form a camp, which was actually to build a simple mobile city. A bit like the Hussite Cheburg tactics of the later Czechs. And after the formation, they just stabilized their own positions, and then when they fought with the Xiongnu Yizhi Shan Yu, they still used cavalry to hedge against others. Chebao only stabilized the Han army's position, first standing invincible, and then counterattacking the exhausted enemy with cavalry.
In different countries and eras, the chariot formation is used as the basis of the whole formation, which shows that it is more effective than the use of heavy infantry formations in preventing rushes, and the use of chariots can also improve the army's long-range movement ability, and maintain the physical strength of soldiers in long-distance running, which can be regarded as an enhanced version of the infantry-based army mule and horse, but at the cost of burning money......